Minor Video Stutter

Stutter no better for me after update.

Samsung LED 6500 series

Could check more: it seems to be a combination of TV model, video format (definitions), country related settings and Apple TV 2.

The worst experience I had was watching Insomnia (German release, SD format, rented iTunes movie). The whole time I watched the video it has stuttered. Starts with the beginning flying sequence – stutter in nearly every minute. Extrem stuttering while lot of changes from frame to frame (action sequences) or very detailed sequences.

Complete movie was buffered, no additional shared iTunes library was available the ATV2 have to index or whatever…

No reduced stuttering while trying to change TV's image settings like jitter, sharpen or noise reduction.

The new update to v4.1.1 ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4448) seems to solve my problems. I checked some of my local movies having stutterings while playing on TV via Apple TV 2 — and it feels like it should now.

More testing needed – but the new update seems to hack in the things that many of us lacked with their combinations of Apple TV 2 and TV model.

I had the same issue as everyone else. Shutter/skipping frames what ever you want to call it.. Turns out it was actually a quick fix on my Sony xbr6 I went into the options menu and turned ON the game mode. Game mode "optimizes the enjoyment of fast paced video games where response time is important"

Hopefully this helps at least one person with similar problems. For further help dig up tv manuals. I bet a lot of the problems are tv setting related.

None of the updates have really helped me. I still have to go into picture options and cycle through the movie plus feature, starting from low to demo, then switching it back off again before i get a smooth picture when streaming films from my Mac or renting them through Apple.

Not sure if it's the AppleTV to blame or my TV.

Has anyone else had this issue with theirs?

There is no setting for aTV2 to output 720p at 50 hz. Is there any fix or workaround for this yet? I too live in a pal-country so all my home video clips jitter. This is a major problem.

I have tested a lot during Christmas days. Every rented iTunes movie (HD) showed more or less stuttering. It is horrible and makes no fun.

And there is nothing I can do to solve it.

The last iOS update for ATV2 showed a bit better results but not more.

Samsung TV users! I have found that shutting off the "Auto Motion Plus" feature in Picture Options has solved the stuttering video issue.

Your right, but you have to turn it on, then off everytime you turn the AppleTV on. That's what I have to do anyway.

The feature you mentioned doesn't actually appear on my Samsung TV, the option I was refering to was 'Movie Plus' the only way for me to stop the juddering is to the cycle through all the options from off to on, to back off again, then it will fine. I have to do this regardless if the option is already off.

Stuttering is different from film to film. Some films seem to be fine while others have extreme stuttering.

For me the Apple TV 2 is useless since 3 months – have just seen under 10 films. Apple TV2 seems to have massive problems based on content and HDMI handshake.

I am not willing to wait any longer for a bugfix. Audio fine, video crap.

I concer and can confirm that setting motion smoothing to "clear" or off has resolved this issue on my Apple Tv shutter.

You are absolutely right!!! On my Samsung TV it is "Movie Plus" that has to be turned off! Thank you very much!

The annoying thing is for me that it's already off & I have to switch it on, then off again to stop the picture judder/slow down :-@

I've seen very little stutter since the last firmware update, but here's the interesting thing. I haven't seen any stutter at all since getting my Harman Kardon AVR 3600 receiver! I've watched quite a bit of video from the Apple TV since getting my new AVR and it seems that what little stutter the firmware didn't fix, the AVR may have fixed itself.

The video processor isn't necessarily exclusive to my receiver as it is available in televisions and what not as well. That processor is the Faroudja "Torino" FLI30436A. I wonder if this processor my be correcting the dropped frames through frame Interpolation..