Choppy video playback with Airplay Mirroring

Just to add to the list of those who said that disabling WMM helped but it's still not acceptably good.

Ethernet might be workable on occasion. Makes a slight joke of "AirPlay" though!

Turning bluetooth off made it watchable (it was 1-2 second pauses before), but it's still not as smooth as watching it on the computer. Disappointing.

It's like having a Windows PC! ;-)

I have a Macbook Pro 15" and both an AC1750 Router. I had to combine everyone's fixes. To recap:

I turned off WMM under both the 2.4 Ghz network and the 5Ghz networks in my router admin control screen. This had no effect on it's own.

I moved the Apple TV to the 2.4Ghz network and the Macbook to the 5Ghz network. This was marginally better, and stopped the longer pauses, but still had slow video every 0.5 seconds or so.

I turned off Bluetooth on the Macbook

Now if I undo any of the above, I get unpredictable results. I was able to reproduce the video problems on another router and Apple TV (without WMM running). I'll try without bluetooth next time I'm in range of that gear.

Note to prospect buyers though, an HDMI cable is cheaper than Apple TV.

Thanks! This solution worked for me too!

I saw a tutorial on youtube. Click on the Bluetooth icon at the top of your screen. Turn bluetooth off. This helped with my airplay streaming smoothly.

Had the same issues the best thing to do is to plug a Ethernet cable straight from your router into the Apple TV.

Using the 5ghz band instead of 2.4ghz on my Airport Express fixed the lag.

Turning off bluetooth was not an option because keyboard and trackpad require it.

nope, nothing works. not wmm off, not qos fiddling, not airport extreme, not netgear R7000. on a late 2015 imac and atv3. GARBAGE! i wish I could let as many people as possible how crappy airplay is for me, and I'd imagine for tons of other people. GG apple. GfG!!

Hi Guys,

Glad this worked for you all. This fix did not work for me so for all those frustrated that this fix didn't work:

I read elsewhere that switching off bluetooth helped. It worked right away. Would be interested to know is that would work alone, i.e. not having disabled WMM.

Best

I have a Netgear N600 router; I did all the suggestions online and was finally able to achieve very smooth video. Here's what all I did:

-Attach the AppleTV to the router via Ethernet

-Connect my Macbook via 5Ghz

-Turn off WMM

-Delete every QoS rule from the list

It wasn't until I got to this last step that finally all stutter was eliminated. Each step along the way, the video quality got a little less jumpy. It started where even the audio would skip, and I was getting about one frame every 5 seconds. It now looks very smooth.

I will give what you mentioned a shot.

Do forgive my ignorance: is there a way to turn off bluetooth without becoming keyboard/mouse-less? My peripherals are all wireless so I don't think there is a way to do that. Or maybe I am wrong? cheers!

merry xmass to all and happy holidays 🙂

Turning WWM off has worked, thank you.

Noticed that I always have Bluetooth turned on so will try that as my Kindle, strangely, wouldn't see my network when WWM was disabled.

Thanks for all the help so far though 🙂

I too have this issue. Only when streaming a "vid" from a website. Was very annoying and sound was much quieter than it should have been,

I opened youtube and at the lower right side where it gives you the option to airplay, i clicked it and connected whatever youtube vid to my ATV but without hitting the play button to watch the actual youtube video. Then I opened the website I was wanting to stream the movie and voila...the video itself connected to ATV with 5.1 like sound and amazing quality without the choppy experience. Not sure why it works this way or what this option is actually doing to be different from mirroring but alls I know is that it works without having the muck around with settings. Wish there would be a proper fix but this works until then.

Good luck!

I think this might be helpful, I will see if I can make it work.

I thought it was something to do with my internet speed having increased and maybe Apple TV can't keep up of time capsule channel needs changing