On Aug 7, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Gregg Dinse wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought a mac mini and connected it to our HDTV with a HDMI cable. I > used screen sharing from my Mac Pro to control the mini. All that seemed to > work fine. > > I have a Netgear router with both 5-GHz and 2.4-GHz radios. I tried to watch > an episode of The Closer (and then a few other shows) but nothing even > started to play. Is this not possible via wireless? That seems hard to > believe. My Sony Bluray player can stream 1080p stuff from Netflix. Why > can't I watch a show from a network's web site? It works fine on my Mac Pro > which has a wired connection to the router. I tried both the 5-GHz and > 2.4-GHz settings and neither worked. I was able to play videos that were on > the mini's hard drive and a video on the Apple web site, but not any of the > TV videos I tried. If there is not enough bandwidth for the best picture, > why don't they drop to a lower resolution or at least offer me a choice. I > just get nothing happening when I click on the video link, as if I did not > even click. I don't even get the spinning beach ball. > > I also tried this on a MacBook Air and again could not get anywhere. > > Am I doing something wrong? If not, why won't this work?
I can't say the issues you are having but I have no problem streaming video to my Mac Pro and my 2 year old mini over the 5ghz WiFi over my Apple AirPort Extreme (older model) when I mount my server HD over AFS over the WiFi link and play the movies off this network share. Chad _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
