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g_moon
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January 5, 2012
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Using HDMI video out on iPad 2

  • January 5, 2012
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Quick question that it seems to be hard to search the answer to (everything leads to Airplay or video playback...)

- Can you enable video mirroring to a TV connected with the HDMI adapter from an iOS Air App?

- If so, what's required to make this work?

Thanks!

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Correct answer Colin Holgate

If it's an iPad 2, you don't have to enable mirroring, it just works. iPad 1 didn't have that ability at all, you could only send a video out through the adapter. BTW, the iPad 2 mirroring works over VGA too, it doesn't have to be HDMI.

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Colin Holgate
Colin HolgateCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 5, 2012

If it's an iPad 2, you don't have to enable mirroring, it just works. iPad 1 didn't have that ability at all, you could only send a video out through the adapter. BTW, the iPad 2 mirroring works over VGA too, it doesn't have to be HDMI.

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    g_moonAuthor
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    January 5, 2012

    Thanks Colin!

    I will need to do some testing at the office (only have an iPad 1 here), but can I assume that the display will show the 4:3 Air App, but that if I link to a video using the native video player it will show in 16:9. Is this correct?

    Colin Holgate
    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    January 5, 2012

    I tried those things. If you're using mirroring, then you see either a 4:3 or 3:4 copy of the iPad screen, and it's safely in from the edges of the TV screen. Probably to be compatible with old CRT TVs. If you play a video in Safari, it will initially be in the same mode, but if you touch the full screen button, the video zooms up in a mirrored state until the moment that it becomes full screen. Then the internal display on the iPad just shows the controller, and the TV shows the 16:9 video right out to the edges of the TV.

    If you're using StageWebView, or the native player, from a Flash app, I think it would behave the same way.

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