Comments on: Beamer – a better way to AirPlay video from your Mac to Apple TV? (Review)

By: addministrion

addministrion — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:24:00 +0000

You may try use Avdshare Video Converter to to convert MKV to Apple TV compatible format.

By: Oliver 'soulwarrior' Gehrmann

Oliver 'soulwarrior' Gehrmann — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:30:00 +0000

Beamer is great when it works. Sometimes a file won’t play even though it worked the day before. I have to restart Beamer, or reconnect to my network or restart my Apple TV. It’s often something different or the app requires me to do several of the above.

It is super frustrating when this happens; it would be half as painful if I’d know for sure what the problem is…

Other than that, great, great, great app. I don’t want to miss it, I just want to miss this erratic behavior. ^^

By: Josue Alexander

Josue Alexander — Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:00 +0000

I seem unable to purchase the app since i have snow leopard. Theres is a previous version available to donwload, however it is noted that you cannot longer buy a license for it. so whats the point in offering the download. Is there a way for snow leopard users to use this app?

By: Lina Stefen

Lina Stefen — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:51:00 +0000

I know a simple and fast way to stream and play MKV on Apple TV, Apple TV 2 or the new Apple TV 3: Convert MKV to Apple TV as well as iTunes compatible video format to stream MKV to Apple TV from iTunes for playing MKV on ATV successfully here: https://www.bigasoft.com/articles/stream-and-play-mkv-on-apple-tv.html

By: richardvalentinew

richardvalentinew — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 06:30:00 +0000

I just find a step by step guide on how to convert MKV to Apple TV MP4 format
at https://www.idealshare.net/itunes-quicktime/apple-tv-mkv-solution.html

It
also applies to convert other video formats like WMV, AVI, DivX, Xvid,
RealMedia (rm), Flash format, GIF, SWF, FLV, ASF, MPG, 3GP, WebM, and
etc to Apple TV supported format

By: Dante

Dante — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:44:00 +0000

In reply to blkadder. yes! I use splashtop 2 on my ipad which is a remote viewer app. Works great.

By: Dante

Dante — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:43:00 +0000

I have problems with AVI files. They skip throughout the whole movie. I tried with several different avi files as well and the same thing continued to happen 🙁

By: Barbara Burch

Barbara Burch — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:13:00 +0000

We have Beamer and it has never worked. We download the movie, I drag it from my desktop into Beamer and it just jumps right back to the desktop. I have yet to be able to watch a movie via Beamer. What am I doing wrong?

By: Michael J Kormendy

Michael J Kormendy — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:24:00 +0000

I think Beamer has been updated since 5 months ago, it plays every video type I throw at it and works flawlessly. The $15 is worth the practically flawless experience I have had with this app.

For those interested in an app that has a similar approach to streaming with DLNA supported TVs and Devices, I found this app today:

https://highlvl.com/sofaplay/

There’s a Lite version of the app on their site for testing. Don’t get discouraged!
I had it crash a couple times, but I played with the playing progress bar and then it just worked after. It’s early in its infancy but it could be Panasonic Viera TV… who knows?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:16:00 +0000

I love this app when it’s working. For some reason, it often stops to buffer then it skips right to the end of the show. When I go to my computer to restart it, it says reconnecting to Apple TV….not sure why it keeps cutting off my connection.