Ive recently bought a apple tv 3rd generation. Everything seems to be working fine with airplay from my iphone to apple tv, but when I try and use airplay from my mac book pro, it is extremely slow, and if I try and stream a movie or something its that terrible it is unwatchable and usually freezes then stops. How can I resolve this problem? is this a problem with the apple tv?
Got exactly the same problem. Brand new MBA with OSX 10.8.5 running.
In addition I can say that since the new updates released for ATV (mine is a 2nd gen) the problem became severe and the Airplay mirroring not usable.
Apple, please share with us your thoughts and plan about this issue.
I have a:
All equipment is up to date software wise. Airplay mirroring from my laptop to my apple tv is ok. I get frequent lag, pixelation, audio skip (every 10 mins or so).
I'm using the 5ghz specturm to connect to the airport express so shouldn't have any inteference from my neibours (accordiing to iStumbler i'm the only person with a 5ghz setup using channel 30). I've tried connecting apple tv wirelessly and wired. No issues streaming from my iPhone or an iPad!
Surprisingly, using apps such as Beemer or Air Video Server on my MBP work better than native mirroring when it comes to video play back.
Strange when you think how Air Video works:
Rather than:
Seems bizzare that my iPhone can handle better streaming than my pro laptop.
Is anybody going to look into this issue? I also have the same problem. It seems that apple has forgot about consumers concerns!
All - Since there hasn't been any action by Apple to this point I went ahead and submitted the issue as feedback here - http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
I suggest that you all do the same as well to hopefully get some awareness created for this issue. I just tried again to show a movie using iMovie on my MacBook Pro to my ATV and it was horrible. It completely froze. Plus I had to reconnect my MacBook about 3 times at the beginning because it kept losing connection to the Airplay and not showing my screen on my TV.
I had the same problem. I closed Parallels Desktop 8 and everything works beautifully.
Same here, too.
MBP 13" Retina 2.6/i5, 8 GB, OS X 10.9
ATV 3. Gen., 6.0.2
iTunes 11.1.3
Full speed mirroring with iPhone 4S via personal hotspot, low speed mirroring with MBP via W-LAN (Netgear WGR614v7 without any issues).
No Parallels in progress. Just Mavericks and iTunes.
Feedback submitted to AppleCare.
2012 15" Retina Macbook Pro hooked up via thunderbolt ethernet to ethernet on the aTV 2 and the stutters are there. Even dropping the Macbook resolution to 1024x768 and aTV 720P the stutters are there. Yet I pull out my iPhone 5S/5/4S or iPad 2 with the same content and no stutters. It makes no sense. It is clearly an issue with OSX.
I have same promblem. Streaming is perfecly fine with an iphone 4 and it laggs when streaming with a mac book pro late 2011. This simply makes no sense ! Apple We are waiting for some answers !
Mac OS X 10.9.1 has fixed the problem for me.
Pixelation is gone.
The delay between mouse/keyboard input and display is noticible but manageable.
Streaming video works well (with audio / video just a tiny bit out of sync).
I had the same problem. I updated to 10.9.1 and turned off my bluetooth. It helped alot the lag is almost gone. it occurs maybe every 20 mins or so for like a half second. Updating to 10.9.1 and turning off my bluetooth helped me. Hope it helps you guys too!!
I'm so sorry I forgot to say that I also changed the resolution. I went to display preferences after I extended my desktop to Apple TV. Then I looked on my tv screen and changed the resolution from 720p to the one below it. Watching now and there is no lag.
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Same exact issue here. Need a fix.
I switched to wired ethernet on the AppleTV and it is much better (not perfect, though). The wireless in the AppleTV is slow. Even 1 foot away from my AccessPoint it connected at 56mbps. I have a feeling that the video sent through the iDevices is not true 720P so they stream fine.
I have the same exact issue, but not only for video playback, even if I just try to "airplay" music from my brand new MBP retina 13" (by selecting Apple TV as output source for sound) the lag is so bad it is practically not usable.
Any ideas what may be causing this? Airplay works perfectly fine when streaming from my iPad 2 or iPhone 4S, but I get terrible lags for anything I try to airplay/stream from the MBP retina. I am running the latest OS X (10.9.1) and an Apple TV 2 also with the latest software update.
Edit: Seems it works fine when I'm playing from Youtube or iTunes, but not with Spotify, so I guess the Spotify software is the issue here for me... (although video playback is also lagging somewhat, but works flowlessly if I connect with an HDMI cable)
When using airplay from mac to apple tv it lags/freezes, but works fine with iPhone
