When using airplay from mac to apple tv it lags/freezes, but works fine with iPhone

Same here, Mac pro latest OS... The thing is that there is no lag when playing movies with Apple tv that are located in my mac, when using the Apple tv interface.

Same Promblem here, legging too much cannot watch / stream movies

This is seriously driving me crazy, I tried changing the resolution on TV and on my Mac, my software is up to date, bluetooth is off, tried everything but Apple TV is lagging when connected to computer but works perfect on ipad and iphone,

Just now I spent 35 minutes on iPad to find the movie where as takes a minute on Mac. Apple TV just not working on my brand new MAC air, I tried in 3 diffrent houses and basically Apple TV is not working as it should be with Airplay / Mirroring. This is not a wifi strenght issue or any other outside source it is just not working with Mac as it should.

I am sooooooo ****** of and its just wasting my time at this point, impossible to watch anything from the computer, even the movies from my computer is lagging including the mouse movements whereas works perfect with other devices.

Using my computer on TV was the reason I purchased it and its absolute garbage.

I know, it's the same thing with my MBPr, airplay simply lags too much to be usable for video streaming. Works perfectly with iPhone/iPad. This ***** as it was one of the reasons I upgraded from my MBP 2010. At least the MBPr has a HDMI video+audio output, so now I'm simply connecting it with a cable to my TV which works great, but would be better if airplay worked as advertised...

I had the same problem with MacPro Retina - try this:

Launchpad

System Preferences

Displays

In "Display" tab, choose "optimize for Apple TV (Airplay)"

The wifi on the AppleTV isn't very fast. I had to connect the AppleTV via Ethernet and my lag went away.

Okey, here's what I found out this morning actually.

Watched a movie (with VLC over air mirroring - extended desktop) yesterday and it studdered pretty bad. Movie was 720p and my setup is AT3 and Macbook Air mid 2011.

My ATV3 is connected with wire.

My router (RT-N66U) supports both 2,4 and 5Ghz as any other modern router out there.

Simple solution (at least for my setup) was simply to hook up my Air to the 5Ghz Wifi, and all symptoms of studder went away,

Hope this is to any kind of help 🙂

Good point about the 5G. Mine was already setup like that so I didn't think to mention it.

Exactly what I needed in that link. I had changes around some wifi router settings unintentionally, so that article sent me back to reset them. I feel bad about blaming my ISP now. Well, there, I got over it.

I just bought an Apple TV today and was experiencing similar problems with Video mirroring from my Macbook Pro 2011. I am working on a 10.9.1 operating system with 2.3 GHz Inter core i5 and 4Gb of DDR3 memory.

When I set up the Apple TV, the image would freeze on my TV as soon as I activate airplay mirroring. What ever image was on my Macbook screen would apear on my TV and that would be it. There would be no more video mirroring. I could not see the mouse move, or any video playback, or any applications...Basically I would be stuck at the image that I had when I started mirroring.

The audio playback was normal throughout however. Even when the image was frozen the audio would work just fine.

When I set up the apple TV it was connected to my network wirelessly. I connected my Apple TV to my router via ethernet cable and that solved the problem.

Now, I have excellent video playback. I have excellent audio playback. I can stream videos from the internet on my computer and watch them on the TV via apple TV. I can access my itunes from my computer and listen to songs through my TV and there is no lag or missed frames.

My router does not support a 5G signal so I could not try that option, but it seems that the ethernet cable works great.

Quite a disappointment from apple, but at least there's a fix to the problem.

Same issue.

No reply from Apple for over 5 months?!

Just bought Apple TV today, Iphone and Ipad work just fine, MacBook Pro 2012 has severe streaming issues. I don't see why this would be a router issue if the other devices are working just fine...

Did you try connecting the apple TV to the router via ethernet cable?

I don't really have an explanation as to why it works, but it did for me. The same solution was mentioned in one of the earlier posts as well.

Yes I have it connected with cable, same issues...

I just had the same issues- basically unusable. ATV2 would show an image of the desktop (MBP13R) maybe for a second- but nothing even close to functional. Sound worked ok. I have another guest network on my router (dualband?), which no other devices are using. So I switched to that on both the macbook pro and the apple tv and things are perfect... mirroring, everything works well. The guest network is slightly slower or on a different frequency, but I suppose there is less interference on it and that's why it works for this. I do have a nest, iphone, printer, ipod... all on the other network- so that makes sense to me. Hope that helps anyone out there.

Same problem!!!!!!! I don't understand how a compnay such as apple can have issues like this! It's 2014 people!! Get your tech fixed!!!!!!!!!!!