SERVETOME MAC MOVIE
About my only quibble is Beamer doesn’t support video playlists: you can only drag-and-drop a single movie at a time, with no queing. That’s impressive in and of its own right.
Even with large video files, playback on my Apple TV was almost immediate, image quality was fantastic and there was none of the usual jitters and stutters that I have gotten when trying to use my older iMac to stream video to my Apple TV. Testing Beamer out on my 2009 iMac, I was just amazed at how good the experience was.
If you switch away from the video player to check your email or your Twitter account, it’s all mirrored on the screen. There are apps like AirParrot that get around that limitation, but I’ve always found them to be a little bit strange and laggy, doing weird things like letterboxing my iMac’s display on all sides.Įven if you have a Mac that is newer than 2011, though, there’s one major limitation of AirPlay Mirroring: if you’re streaming a movie to your Apple TV using AirPlay Mirroring, you can’t actually do anything else with your Mac while the movie is playing. First of all, AirPlay Mirroring doesn’t work at all on Macs released before 2011, meaning that my 2009-era 27-inch iMac can’t easily stream anything off of its 3.25 TB (rolled-at-home) Fusion Drive. It’s truly indispensible to me.Īlthough I love AirPlay Mirroring, the feature still has two main issues. My girlfriend and I use it pretty much all the time to watch movies at night - I digitized our vast DVD collection long ago to save space. Without a doubt, my favorite Mountain Lion feature is AirPlay Mirroring, which allows me to easily mirror whatever is happening on my Mac to my Apple TV.
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