ATV4 homesharing 1080p buffering/file-loading issues

I have the same issue. I have reverted to my ATV 3 for now. I cannot watch my iTunes 1080p downloaded movies, through Home Share, on the new ATV 4 without buffering every few minutes. I have PC and Mac based iTunes Home Share servers on a gig network. When I put my ATV 3 back into my system, all is well. While swapping between the ATV 3 and ATV 4, I noticed that video quality through the older ATV 3 is much better than through the newer ATV 4 even though they are both set for 1080p, which is a bummer. Meta data from my movies and TV shows from non-iTunes sources, is not displayed correctly as well. I get the impression that the new ATV 4 was optimized for streaming from the internet and not as a player for home based video libraries, which is another bummer. Over all I am disappointed in the new Apple TV 4.

I dont think it has something to do with iTunes. Im having these buffering issues with homesharing and when i use the app simpleX with the "force direct play" option activated. In both ways the internal Media Player is used. If i choose the Plex App without direct play it doesnt uses the internal player and i dont have the issues.

The ATV3 was perfect for videos with homesharing cause it loaded about 8GB in the video cache, it seems like the ATV4 doesnt work like that, unfortunately.

I am experiencing the same issue with Home Sharing streaming over WiFi on both 5ghz and 2.4ghz bands using the latest Belkin AC router. On 5ghz band a 1080p movie starts streaming for 10-15 secs and then it goes to the infinite buffering. I need to restart the device to restore the connection. With 2.4 band I get better results but eventually it goes into an infinite buffering as well.

Surely enough ATV 3 and ATV 2 work just fine from the same spot on both bands. Called Apple Care, they said I was the first one to report an issue with Home Sharing streaming problems. They need more people to call before the issue will be escalated to engineering team.

Mine is doing the exact same thing, I thought maybe because they only put a lame 10/100 on it. But sure enough I go wireless and it buffers than the old Real Network days. It doesn't matter if my iMac is on wired or wireless. I really hope they fix this soon or it's going back. It's basically unusable at this point.

I'm having the same issue. I owned two ATV3s and loved them. We purchased two ATV4s to replace them and they're both exhibiting the same problem playing movies over Home Sharing. The file progress scrubber will look as if it's making progress loading the file, then it will jerk backwards as if the data isn't really loading. Both units are connected to a wired ethernet connection. I'm frustrated, but trying to keep in mind that bugs are inevitable and I'm hoping for a fix soon.

Please remember to submit feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html as this is just a user forum. The more people that report the issue, the more likely a fix will be found / released. (I linked back to this thread in my feedback submission.)

I would recommend Plex. It's a more flexible server and works flawlessly right now. It seems Apple still has some kinks to work out and I fully expect they will but in the meantime I can use a workaround...

I Am not sure that Plex can nativley play iTunes purchased content such as .m4v files with DRM in it.

That's totally true. No DRM support on Plex for the .M4V files. But for DRM free media Plex is a great alternative. And there are tools to remove DRM...

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201128288-Why-don-t-videos-from-iTunes -Amazon-etc-play-

I have the same issue. Still using previous ATV without issue. Major buffering problems. Wifi speed drops from 20mb to below 1mb. Have tried leaving on for over 30mins & then it seems to work. I've turned off autoupdate, but still having issue.

+1 for same issue. I hope Apple are watching.

Streaming HD movies purchased on iTunes from iMac to new Apple TV via home sharing (and Time Capsule router), stutters, pauses, buffering. Unwatchable.

SD movies are OK, no interruptions. AppleTV 3 works flawlessly on HD and SD.

Rebooted everything on network, but no improvements. Seems like a critical bug at this point. Hopefully to be rectified.

I have spoken to Apple Care about this and pointed them in the direction of the two or three discussions that are on this forum regarding the same problem. It is logged as an issue and they are coming back to me. Will keep you updated.

I thought I was having WIFI/Network issues, but hooked up my ATV3 and the streaming worked fine. This is beyond annoying b/c I cannot even get Apple Music to stream half of the time without major delays. Every time I try streaming TV Shows and Movies from my purchased section, more often than not, they get into an infinite buffering mode. Maybe the update released today will correct these issue. I sure hope so.

Also, why in the world do they not list TV Shows' seasons in order. I have to go to "view in iTunes" to access all the seasons I own for a few series. It makes no sense.

The latest update did not address the buffering from home sharing issue. Just tried to watch a 1080p movie from my iTunes library and within 10 minutes the movie stopped to buffer. The activity bar still jumps back and the movie stalls.

well you spoilt my day!! was hoping to get home and this would resolve the issue. Looks like we'll be waiting until after XMAS for this critical bug fix.