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The mirroring is very smooth and fast - there's minimal lag so animations and transitions display well. Select that and if all is well a new window pops up on your desktop with the mirrored device. When you click in the device will display all nearby AirPlay servers and 5KPlayer-YourMachine should be one of them: If not connected the text will read Screen Mirroring. In the screen shot the mirroring is already set up (otherwise I couldn't capture the image). To do this open the iOS device and bring up the iOS control center (swipe from upper left corner diagonally) and choose screen mirroring from that screen: I've run into problems when I used a wired connection on my laptop and WiFi on the phone where the two are effectively on separate network segments and so couldn't see each other. Make sure that the device and your computer are on the same WiFi network - on the same subnet. Once it's on you should now be able to connect your iOS device to it. Once you've installed 5KPlayer you have to enable the AirPlay server that's built into it when it's running. Setting up Screen Mirroring with 5kPlayer If that can handle 4k videos even close to as well as the player I'm all in. Apparently they also make a video editor they sell, which I'll likely buy next time I need to edit my GoPro videos.
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Again, unlike some of the other solutions I've used in the past which often would disconnect, not keep up or lock up.ĥKPlayer is free and no, they're not paying me - I'm just excited to have found a reliable and smooth solution to projecting my iOS devices. It's fast, doesn't stutter and there's minimal lag so it works fine for capturing smooth animations for example.
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the real highlight of 5KPlayer is that it provides an Apple AirPlay Server that you can use to cast your iOS device to a Window on the Windows desktop. Given that most video solutions on Windows stutter or downright lock up when scrubbing through video this was a huge win for me.īut. It's bare bones, but it works much smoother and faster than anything else I've used for quickly scrubbing through and clipping my many 4K GoPro Videos. 5KPlayer is first and foremost a Video Player and - as it turns out - a pretty damn good and fast one at that. Recently I ran into 5K Player via an unrelated recommendation for a media player. Sadly I've gone through many, many different and shady tools that have come and gone over that timeframe. I've been looking for a decent mirroring solution on Windows for years. So when I ran into 5KPlayer, which is what I use in this post, I was excited to see it and try it out.
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Many TVs, and various TV boxes like a Roku support AirPlay so you can cast content from an Apple Device to your TV.ĪirPlay is proprietary, but it's a fairly well known protocol and widely used, yet there aren't a lot of Windows implementations of it. And surprisingly there also haven't been a lot of third party solutions available to provide AirPlay services on Windows either.ĪirPlay is Apple's screen casting technology that's meant to project iOS device screen content or application output to some other display device like a TV or set top box.

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On a Mac AirPlay is built in and works in the default media player, so screen mirroring just works - not surprising on Apple's native platform. You can't access the phone directly and screen mirroring is not a thing. iOS Screen Mirroring on Windows: Harder than it should beĪpple being Apple and always poking a stick into competitors' eyes, they don't make it easy to access iOS features from Windows. The same thing applies in a live presentation where attendees can't see your phone screen, and need the projected device screen to see what's happening. The screen mirroring allowed me to show the interaction between the development editor and my iPhone mobile device.
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In that post I showed how to use WebPack development Web server in Angular to live reload content directly on an iOS device and I used the Windows screen mirroring to capture the updates as part of a short screencast to demonstrate the feature: For me that's usually for a screen capture or potentially for a presentation of some sort.įor example here's a screencast capture in the aforementioned blog post. If you're doing Mobile Web development on Windows, it's probably not uncommon to run into a scenario where you need to display the content of the mobile device screen. So here's a short post that talks about the tool I'm using and how to set it up:

After my last post about using Angular Live Reload on a Mobile Device, several people asked me what I was using for displaying my phone screen on my Windows machine.
