What's new in AirParrot 3.1.7
Jan 18, 2023
- Fixed an issue that prevented users from playing videos with the media function
- Technical maintenance
New in AirParrot 3.1.6 (Apr 5, 2022)
- Fixed an audio issue caused by the Apple HomePod 15.4 update.
- As always if you're having issues email us at [email protected] and be sure to include information about your setup.
New in AirParrot 3.1.5 (Mar 22, 2022)
- Fixed a connectivity issue caused by the Apple HomePod 15.4 update.
New in AirParrot 3.1.3 (Feb 5, 2021)
- Fixed a crash when trying to extend desktop.
New in AirParrot 3.1.0 (Sep 30, 2020)
- Added support for some AirPlay 2-enabled Smart TVs
- Added compatibility with AirParrot Remote 1.2
- Fixed an issue with extended display driver installation on Windows
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
New in AirParrot 2.7.4.369 (Sep 28, 2017)
- Added compatibility with tvOS 11
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements
New in AirParrot 2.7.3 (Jun 7, 2017)
- Added support for mirroring audio-only to LG Music Flow speakers
- Resolved an issue using DNS names and IP addresses with Quick Connect
- Resolved an issue with media play button/scrubber position not correctly updating with Apple TV 4
- Resolved an issue waking Chromecast from sleep when connecting to mirror
- Resolved an issue with registering on Turkish date format devices
- Resolved an issue displaying UTF8 characters in the receiver list
- Resolved an issue with capture stalling when using the "Classic" capture method on older computers
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements
New in AirParrot 2.7.2 (May 18, 2017)
- Added support for mirroring audio-only to LG Music Flow speakers
- Resolved an issue using DNS names and IP addresses with Quick Connect
- Resolved an issue with media play button/scrubber position not correctly updating with Apple TV 4
- Resolved an issue waking Chromecast from sleep when connecting to mirror
- Resolved an issue with registering on Turkish date format devices
- Resolved an issue displaying UTF8 characters in the receiver list
- Resolved an issue with capture stalling when using the "Classic" capture method on older computers
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements
New in AirParrot 2.7.0 (Mar 16, 2017)
- Added Chromecast Audio Support
- Added support for Apple TV tvOS 10.2
- Added support for Apple TV Device Verification feature
- Improved reliability on large networks and when changing networks
- AirParrot 2 mirroring is now recordable by Reflector 2
- Improved device discovery
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements
New in AirParrot 2.6.2 (Oct 14, 2016)
- Resolved an issue that could cause screens mirrored to an Apple TV 4 to appear very small
- Improvements to AirParrot Remote stability and performance
- Improved Bonjour discovery of Chromecast version 1.21.72444
- Quick Connect now supports modifiers for troubleshooting and legacy connection modes
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements
New in AirParrot 2.6.1 (Sep 13, 2016)
- Resolved an issue that could cause connections to quickly drop when using tvOS 9 on a fourth-generation Apple TV
New in AirParrot 2.6.0 (Sep 9, 2016)
- Added compatibility with tvOS 10 on the fourth-generation Apple TV
- Improved performance and reliability of Bonjour discovery
- Added setting to disable localization and use English
- Resolved an issue that would cause a crash when attempting to load media files with capitalized file extensions
- Resolved an issue that would cause Cast connections to hang when quitting AirParrot 2
- Resolved a potential crash when suddenly losing connection to a Chromecast
- Resolved a potential crash when launching AirParrot 2
- Resolved a potential crash when switching between docked monitors
- Resolved a potential crash when attempting to connect to an AppleTV with a password or onscreen code enabled
- Resolved a potential crash when suddenly losing connection to a Chromecast
- Miscellaneous bug fixed and performance improvements
- Added enhanced encryption when mirroring to Apple TV or Reflector 2
New in AirParrot 2.5.2 (Aug 2, 2016)
- Improved mDNS discovery and reliability on very large networks with hundreds of devices
- Added better support for multiple monitor setups on Windows 8.1 and above
- Added improved support for alternate DPIs on Windows 8.1 and above
New in AirParrot 2.5.1 (May 29, 2016)
- Resolved an issue connecting to a Chromecast running the latest Chromecast software update.
New in AirParrot 2.5.0 (Apr 14, 2016)
- AirParrot 2 is now localized in 13 additional languages! In addition to English, users can now use AirParrot 2 in their native Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, Dutch, Czech, French, Hungarian, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish and Danish languages!
New in AirParrot 2.4.0 (Mar 14, 2016)
- Resolved an issue with long buffering times when beginning to stream media to a Chromecast
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and stability improvements
New in AirParrot 2.3.2 (Jan 19, 2016)
- Improved compatibility with Chromecast audio-only devices
- AirParrot 2 now auto-configures the Windows Firewall on installation to allow necessary port traffic
- Better support for per-device audio level adjustment when connected to a Cast device
- Resolved an issue with licensing AirParrot 2 on some Windows 10 computers
- Resolved a crash when switching from Mirroring to Media Streaming
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and stability improvements
New in AirParrot 2.3.0 (Nov 10, 2015)
- Improved support for the new Apple TV 4
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and stability improvements
New in AirParrot 2.2.1 (Jul 31, 2015)
- Improved Cast mirroring and streaming support, especially on lossy networks
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and stability improvements
New in AirParrot 2.2.0 (Jun 17, 2015)
- AirParrot 2 now better supports running on tablet and touch devices
- AirParrot 2 now appears in the "Open With" context menu when right clicking a media file in Explorer
- Audio streaming to AirPort Express generation 1, version 1 now works properly
- Pressing Control+L will now automatically reconnect to the last receiver
- The power button and play/pause buttons are now disabled when not mirroring/streaming
- Improved the "select an area" mirroring UI to be easier to use and better looking
- Improved general mouseover, scrolling and tap areas (especially on touch devices)
- Resolved a crash when rotating a Windows tablet while mirroring the screen
- Resolved an issue that could cause media streaming to drop after roughly 30 minutes of streaming
- Resolved an issue that caused duplicate devices, when connected via Quick Connect, to appear when re-opening the AirParrot 2 menu
- Resolved an issue that caused AirParrot 2 to stop sending sound during mirroring when the AirParrot 2 volume slide was adjusted in the Windows sounds mixer
- Resolved an issue that caused device names with special characters to appear mis-formatted
- Resolved an issue that caused progress indicators to remain after disconnecting from a device while media streaming is connecting
- Resolved a memory leak when using Classic Capture mode on Windows 8
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and stability improvements
New in AirParrot 2.1.3 (May 9, 2015)
- Resolved an issue introduced in 2.1.2 that could cause the stored license key to become corrupt, requiring re-entry
- Resolved an issue that could cause AirParrot 2 to refuse to install on valid Windows Vista service packs
New in AirParrot 2.1.2 (May 2, 2015)
- Reflector 2 compatibility - Added enhanced support for mirroring and media streaming via AirPlay or Google Cast to Reflector 2
- Resolved a crash when switching between apps in Specific App mirroring
- Resolved an issue with the Application list when many applications are running
- Resolved an issue that caused the mirrored mouse pointer to appear in an incorrect location
- Resolved an issue with audio streaming that could cause it to become crackly or garbled when mirroring
- Resolved an issue with selecting a second video while one is already streaming
- Resolved an issue that prevented reconnecting to a device after using the power button to disconnect
- Resolved an issue that prevented AirParrot 2 from remembering saved AirPlay passwords
- Resolved an issue that prevented “Stretch to Fit” from functioning when mirroring a specific application
- Resolved an issue that caused a mirrored application to become black when resizing
- Improved mDNS refresh and performance
- AirParrot 2 now gracefully handles when displays are added and removed while AirParrot 2 is running
- Resolved an issue that caused the pause icon to remain in the menu bar after a connection ends
- Resolved an issue that caused the AirParrot 2 menu to appear off screen
- Resolved an issue when FIPS security encryption is enabled in Windows
- AirParrot 2 logs now include date and timestamp information
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and stability improvements
New in AirParrot 2.1.1 (Feb 19, 2015)
- Resolved a crash related to multi-channel audio devices when mirroring
- Resolved an issue that could cause audio mirroring to stutter and drop over time
- Resolved several "loopback initialization" audio capture issues
- Miscellaneous audio bug fixes and stability improvements
New in AirParrot 2.1.0 (Dec 24, 2014)
- Subtitles - AirParrot 2 now support media files with embedded and external subtitles!
- Now Playing - AirParrot 2 shows current artist, track and album information for iTunes, Spotify and Radium when mirroring audio only
- Local Audio - AirParrot 2 now allows mirroring audio to local computer speakers in addition to other devices
- Mirror Selected Area - Select just a desired area of a screen or specific app to mirror.
- Added indicators on mouseover for display identification
- Added menu bar indicator when mirroring is paused
- AirParrot 2 now appears in "Open With..." menu for media files
- AirParrot 2 menu now closes when selecting another menu bar item
- Resolved an issue where "Very High" video quality setting actually produced a very low quality video stream
- Resolved an issue that prevented audio streaming to audio devices with multiple interfaces with self-assigned IP addresses
- Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes, stability improvements and performance updates
New in AirParrot 2.0.4 (Dec 4, 2014)
- Improved teardown and disconnect on Chromecast devices
- Improved presentation and dismissal of main menu and submenus
- Resolved several critical crashes on connect, disconnect and exit
- Resolved an issue with mirroring the incorrect external display
- Resolved an issue that prevented some applications from appearing in the Application menu
- AirPlay passwords are now properly remembered even if the device’s IP address changes
- Numerous general UI improvements
- Misc. performance and stability improvements
New in AirParrot 2.0.3 (Nov 27, 2014)
- Corrected an issue that could prevent some users from properly registering multi packs.
New in AirParrot 2.0.2 (Nov 26, 2014)
- Greatly improved media streaming performance and reliability
- Added “time remaining” click toggle to timestamp counter for media streaming
- Added audio error state when mirroring is connected but audio fails to connect
- Media streaming scrubber updates the current timestamp in realtime
- Improved Chromecast mirroring and media streaming stability and performance
- Improved error state icons for low-resolution screens
- Improved error messaging to be clearer and less generic in some situations
- Resolved an issue where Apple TV would maintain connection after media streaming finishes
- Resolved an issue with mirroring audio to first generation AirPort Express
- Resolved an issue where the device list would occasionally fall out of alphabetical order
- Resolved an issue in command line install where license keys were not being applied
- Resolved an issue with Mac license keys appearing valid on Windows (but not allow registering)
- Resolved a crash when rapidly clicking a receiver while it attempts to connect
- Miscellaneous performance and stability improvements
New in AirParrot 2.0.1 (Nov 24, 2014)
- AirParrot 2 now prevents the screen saver from starting while mirroring and streaming
- AirParrot 2 now displays application icons in the "Application" mirroring menu
- Improved mDNS and device discovery performance
- Resolved a crash when disconnecting from a media stream
- Resolved an issue that caused Play/Pause to not be properly set during Media Streaming
- Resolved an issue that caused mute on "Audio only" to not mute audio to a receiver
- Resolved an issue that caused the connection menu to not properly size after launch if the task bar icon is quickly clicked.
- Resolved an issue that causes audio only mirroring to not un-mute if muted
- Added advanced logging preference for debugging advanced issues
- Miscellaneous performance and stability improvements
New in AirParrot 1.3 (Oct 7, 2014)
- Added a new preference to enable a periodic "still mirroring" alert
- Resolved an issue when attempting to connect audio to Apple TV OS 7.0
- Resolved an issue that prevented AirParrot from switching between AirPlay destinations
- Many miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
New in AirParrot 1.2.1 (Jun 19, 2014)
- Resolved an issue that caused mirrored images to appear flipped or distorted on older PCs
New in AirParrot 1.2 (Jun 13, 2014)
- Single App Mirroring - Mirror a specific application while continuing to use other applications on your computer. Only the selected application will be mirrored.
- Completely rewritten video capture engine for greatly enhanced mirroring performance
- Tuned audio engine provides much improved audio performance on Windows Vista and later
- Greatly reduced CPU usage while mirroring, especially while mirroring audio
- New first launch splash screen
- Many miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
New in AirParrot 1.1.7 (Sep 27, 2013)
- Added a register link to the main menu during trial mode
- Updated Bonjour for better Apple TV and device discovery
- Mass deployment is now simplified with registry keys for large AirParrot rollouts
- Misc. bug fixes and improvements
New in AirParrot 1.1.6 (Aug 7, 2013)
- Fixes an issue where the selected device in the menu could be incorrect if the device list changes while connecting
- Fixes a bug introduced in 1.1.5 where a congested Bonjour network may timeout prematurely
New in AirParrot 1.1.5 (Aug 7, 2013)
- Provides better stability when enabling audio with a password protected Apple TV
- Provides better support for audio on networks with firewalls
- Adds support for environments with more than 32 Apple TVs or AirPlay receivers
- Adds alphabetical sorting of AirPlay receiver list
- Fixes a crash when selecting an Apple TV in the device list
- Allows the "enter" key to continue the password prompt
New in AirParrot 1.1.3 (Dec 29, 2012)
- Fixed a potential crash on launch in Windows 8
New in AirParrot 1.1.2 (Nov 10, 2012)
- Enhanced AirPlay support for AppleTV 3
- Automatically detect TV Overscan settings
- Ability to force 720p for improved performance on slower networks on AppleTV 3
- Improved logging for network problem resolutions
- Improved menu status messages when unable to connect
- Added support for date-limited promo keys
- Improved compatibility with iOS 6
- Improved audio quality
- Corrected an issue where a spurious mDNS response could hang the system
- Fixed choppy audio some users experienced
- Fixed a potential hang when disconnected from the AppleTV
- Fixed a potential hang when disconnecting audio
- Misc. Performance improvements and bug fixes
New in AirParrot 1.1.1 (Nov 10, 2012)
- This update corrects an issue that prevented the update server from detecting 32-bit or 64-bit versions of AirParrot during update
New in AirParrot 1.1.0 (Nov 10, 2012)
- Enhanced AirPlay support for AppleTV 3
- Automatically detect TV Overscan settings
- Ability to force 720p for improved performance on slower networks on AppleTV 3
- Improved logging for network problem resolutions
- Improved menu status messages when unable to connect
- Added support for date-limited promo keys
- Improved compatibility with iOS 6
- Improved audio quality
- Corrected an issue where a spurious mDNS response could hang the system
- Fixed choppy audio some users experienced
- Fixed a potential hang when disconnected from the AppleTV
- Fixed a potential hang when disconnecting audio
- Misc. Performance improvements and bug fixes
New in AirParrot 1.0.4 (Aug 9, 2012)
- Fixed choppy audio some users experienced
- Fixed a potential hang when disconnected from the AppleTV
- Fixed a potential hang when disconnecting audio
New in AirParrot 1.0.3 (Jul 27, 2012)
- Fixed a crash when disconnecting AirPlay Mirroring or Audio
- Fixed a crash when disconnecting and reconnecting AirPlay Audio
- Fixed a hang when canceling a password protected AirPlay Mirroring session
- Fixed a hang when disconnecting AirPlay Audio
- Fixed garbled/static audio which some users experienced while using AirPlay Audio
New in AirParrot 1.0.2 (Jul 26, 2012)
- Fixed possible crash when audio is toggled
- Fixed issue that could prevent audio mirroring
- Disables screensaver and display/computer sleep while AirPlay mirroring connection is active