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applefan32 Author

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5 points

Apple TV 3G AirPlay Mirroring Stuttering

I have alreadys posted in other threads but there is no thread with my exact issure.

In particular I have problems with the AIrPlay Mirroring with games on the new Apple TV 3G and the iPad 2.

I have tried 3 different Routers: one with 150 MBit/s, one with 450 MBit/s and one dualband 300 MBit/s.

The issue remains the same:

1. AirPlay Mirroring is not 1080p on my TV. Tried 2 TVs, an LCD Samsung B650 and a new Plasma Panasonic STW50. On both TVs there is a visilbe 5cm black frame around the picture. I looked at the Apple TV settings and looked at the zoom and overscan settings on my TVs - so I couldn't find any errors in sthe setings.

2. AirPlay Mirroring stutters on the TV that bad that it is not playable! I tried all variants 50Hz and 60Hz and no change. Music videos from my iMac didn't stutter once!

3. From time to time the whole Mirroring freezes fo a second and the continues (and I'm out of the track and naturally out of the race)

I tried 3 games: RealRycing 2, Asphalt 5 and Modern Combat 3 - all the same issue.

So what the heck is happening here!?!

WiFi network isn't to slow or to far away (same room 3m ftom couch and 0,5m to Apple TV, wired connection to the router didn't help either).

+ Either the new Apple TV 3G or the iPad 2 seems not to support WMM, which can be switched on on some routers; the opposite happens: disabling WMM makes AirPlay work between iPad 2 and Apple TV3. With enabled WMM I wasn't even able to play music!

It seems like the Apple TV is buffering too slow or that the hardware is to weak!

(There is one thread where Apple TV buffers videos and stutters the same way. I didn't try look some long films, only Music Clips.)

Apple TV (3rd generation), iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Apr 24, 2012 6:02 AM

49 replies

iNiff

Level 1

0 points

Oct 21, 2012 9:09 PM in response to applefan32

Did that actually solve the problem? which router did you get?

mnoble01

Level 1

4 points

Oct 24, 2012 9:09 AM in response to applefan32

FYI the steps in this thread solved my issue with Linksys E3200

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3520018?start=0&tstart=0

Mar 28, 2013 10:55 AM in response to applefan32

I have a 3rd gen AppleTV and 2nd gen Time Capsule. Whenever I use AirPlay, no matter waht device (iPhone 5, iPad Retina Display, mid 2011 MacBook Air, late 2012 iMac), I would expereince incessant stuttering and lags, no matter what resolution video I'm trying to stream.I had done everything, including restoring defaults on both ATV and TC. I couldn't find a solution for months.

Today, I was able to resolve the issue simply by manually selecting the wireless channels insted of leaving it set to Automatic. Now I can stream any resolution video with no problems.

Hope this helps.

dk15213

Level 1

0 points

Sep 4, 2013 8:07 AM in response to applefan32

I have an ATV 3, rMBP, and asus RT-N66U router. I had similar lagging / stuttering and what worked for me was switching from wired to wireless connection between the ATV and the router. I'm by no means a computer expert, but my guess is that the 10/100 ethernet connection on the ATV 3 was acting as a bandwidth bottleneck (100mbps for wired vs 150-300mbps for wireless). Once I switched to dual-channel wifi, I was immediately able to stream 1080p through airplay flawlessly from my rMBP. According to the traffic monitor on my router, the ATV 3 uses the 5ghz connection solely by default. All of my other settings are stock settings, both on the router and on the ATV 3. It probably helps that my ATV is only 3 feet from my router. Hope this helps anyone else having this problem!

For those inclined, this website clarified a lot of questions I had about wifi bandwidth: http://www.woodcliffeit.com/blog/?p=11

Apple TV 3G AirPlay Mirroring Stuttering