Streaming online WMV files to ATV3: best solutions?

[antonio107]

Hello all,

Brand new here. I bought my sorta-tech-competent grandpa ATV3 for his birthday, thinking it would be a fun toy for him. Him and grandma like watching streaming videos online from back home in Hungary. Usually it's Duna TV or Magyar TV. He has an old off-lease PC I bought him on the cheap. I found out all about clicktoplugin and mediacenter extensions for PC Safari, and thought, wow - finally he can just chuck files straight onto ATV from his PC, easy as pie!

Yeah, of course not.

It turns out that all of these sites which he uses don't have quicktime or Flash or something. They run WMV files, and clicktoplugin can't throw this to airplay. I can run splashtop on my Ipad and route the PC screen to ATV, but that's not a longterm solution for him.

I also tried Air Parrot. It worked when I tried the demo from my laptop at my apartment, but when I tried mirroring it here, on his desktop or my laptop, there's no sound. I'm just using the trial version, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

TLDR version: How do I get streaming WMV to go from PC to ATV? I'll try just about anything!

Thanks in advance.

 

[m0oskk]

Hello all,

Brand new here. I bought my sorta-tech-competent grandpa ATV3 for his birthday, thinking it would be a fun toy for him. Him and grandma like watching streaming videos online from back home in Hungary. Usually it's Duna TV or Magyar TV. He has an old off-lease PC I bought him on the cheap. I found out all about clicktoplugin and mediacenter extensions for PC Safari, and thought, wow - finally he can just chuck files straight onto ATV from his PC, easy as pie!

Yeah, of course not.

It turns out that all of these sites which he uses don't have quicktime or Flash or something. They run WMV files, and clicktoplugin can't throw this to airplay. I can run splashtop on my Ipad and route the PC screen to ATV, but that's not a longterm solution for him.

I also tried Air Parrot. It worked when I tried the demo from my laptop at my apartment, but when I tried mirroring it here, on his desktop or my laptop, there's no sound. I'm just using the trial version, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

TLDR version: How do I get streaming WMV to go from PC to ATV? I'll try just about anything!

Thanks in advance.

I'd say mountain lion, but it's out of the question probably.

 

[antonio107]

I'd say mountain lion, but it's out of the question probably.

Yeah, buying a new computer/idevice is really not a viable alternative to the situation. Right now I'm using air parrot for the video, and cranking up the PC speakers. It probably bothers me more than them, but I want it to work properly! Not to mention the ridiculous amount of lag in mirroring the entire desktop screen.