Minor Video Stutter

I think I may have resolved this issue although what I found doesn't make a lot of sense. I was having a problem with dropped frames, but this seems to have gone away when I disabled the "send Apple data" option within options. The problem was at it's worst when I was streaming video from my PC, but I'm streaming right now and it's working perfectly fine.

Can anyone else here confirm that turning off this feature fixed their dropped frames?

What are Apple doing about this issue ? Nothing

Time well brought our. Apple Tv's back and demanded a refund. This is plain ********.

Greg, it appears our symptoms are the same, but different issues. Disabling the "send Apple data" feature seemed to fix mine. I've yet to see it drop frames since disabling this. I hope you do find a fix for your issue though.

I'm having this issue as well; with my own encodes and with purchased iTunes content. So it's definitely an issue with the ATV. Disabling "Send data to apple", did not fix mine.

I too am experiencing this problem with my Apple TV 2nd Gen, both with content from the Apple store and downloaded content.

I have tried both wirelessly and wired from my MacBook Pro to my router, and from my router to my Apple TV. I have tried resetting it, restoring it, stopped it sending Apple information, streaming different quality video, all with no success.

I am streaming to a Samsung LE40A557 1080 LCD, and the only thing that made it slightly better, but still didn't completely resolve the problem, was changing an Entertainment setting in the TV to Game.

I am going to complete the feedback form to Apple and hope that this is a firmware issue and that they bring a fix in for it.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html

Help Apple, please!

Same problem here. Glad to know it's not just me.

I have TWO original Apple TV's that work wonderfully. No stutter whatsoever.

I purchased an ATV2 a few days ago, and the intermittent stutter is driving me nuts.

PC > Gigabit Ethernet > ATV2 > Samsung 32" LCD

I think this thread is worthy of the "Major Video Stutter" title by now.

Can I suggest that anyone experiencing this issue phone Apple Support? I have done so already, and according to the support rep the engineering team are looking into it. I have directed them to this thread for information.

You'll need to speak with second tier support, who will pass the issue on to engineering. The more people report it, the more likely a fix will appear.

i have the same problem. stuttering / frame drop every minute with hd movies.

I have reported this via the feedback form. I would recommend people watch the corresponding Macrumors and Handbrake forums. (Handbrake forums seem to not be very active right now though.)

i am experiencing this issue as well. It seems to only happen with PURCHASED content for me. Bought Ginger Snaps last night, and every few minutes a slight stutter would happen (audio was fine though). quite distracting! I think i need a fix or i might switch to roku or something else 😟

Same problem here. Movies begin to skip frames/judder in random spots noticeably after a full buffer. TV is a Samsung 1080p DLP. No problems with my older version 1 ATV. FWIW my setup is as follows:

iMac with USB2 connected storage > Gigabit Ethernet > Airport Extreme > N wireless network > ATV