
The CBC Gem app for Android is intended for touchscreen Android phones and tablets running Android 5.0 and above.

If you wish to stream our content to your television, this can be achieved via Apple AirPlay or Google Chromecast. You may also experience issues accessing Gem on Smart TV and gaming console web browsers. Please note - You may experience issues streaming on other operating systems (Linux, Chrome OS.). Gem is also accessible on PC or Mac via web browser at The ease of the feature is really one of the more compelling reasons to get an Apple TV for many Mac users.įor Mac users who like this idea but don’t have an Apple TV to stream to, you can easily connect a Mac to a TV with HDMI, and while it’s a wired connection (best served with a long HDMI cable), it works flawlessly, has full audio and video support, and is also remarkably easy to setup.CBC Gem is available for free as an App for iOS/iPadOS (iPhone, and iPad), tvOS (Apple TV), Android (phones, and tablets), Android TV (NVIDIA Shield, and select Smart TVs), and Fire TV (Amazon Fire TV Stick, and select Smart TVs). Going beyond YouTube, AirPlay is quite versatile, you can use AirPlay to mirror a Mac screen wirelessly to an Apple TV, and you can AirPlay a video from QuickTime on the Mac too, which is great for locally stored videos and movies that you want to watch on the Apple TV equipped television as well. The YouTube video will start playing on the Apple TV, and the YouTube video on the Mac will turn gray with a message stating “This video is playing on ” to indicate what and where its’ playing.

The rest is incredibly simple, as you’ll see in this tutorial. In order to AirPlay a YouTube video from the Mac to an Apple TV, you’ll need the following an Apple TV (3rd generation or later) connected to a TV, a Mac with OS X El Capitan or newer, both the Mac and Apple TV must be on the same wi-fi network, and you’ll need to use Safari.
