Hi Chad, Sorry, false alarm. It turns out that I needed to install Adobe Flash player. The two systems I tried and failed with were both running Lion. The others, which worked, were running Snow Leopard. As soon as I loaded Flash player, it worked. It's too bad that I did not receive any hint about what was wrong. I finally tried some other TV networks and they actually gave me a message about needing Flash.
Thanks, Gregg On Aug 7, 2011, at 9:42 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: > 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 [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
