AirPlay Won't Play Videos Well

This annoying problem has resurfaced with tvOS 10.2. Fortunately, the old trick still works. Funny that it was introduced with tvOS on 3/24/16, corrected by tvOS 10 on 9/13/16, and restored by 10.2 on 3/27/17. If you experience this, please be sure to report it to Apple at https://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html. That's our only hope for a permanent fix.

By the way, the trick is to start AirPlay as if it's going to work (sometimes it does). Then, if it appears to have stalled, busily buffering but not playing, quickly turn AirPlay off and back on on the iPad/iPhone. It should then start to play.

I agree 100%. I'm airplaying from iPad air using chrome to Apple TV tvOS 9.2. The stream downloads fully as indicated by the progress bar. Can advance manually to view individual frames, but video will not play continuously. Airlplay from the utube app on iPad works fine, but other videos are hopeless! Does it really work after multiple retries?

Aha. Full powercycle on the ATV fixed airplay video player. I had tried the software reset from settings, but apparently that wasn't brutal enough. You'd think the Apple update would be able to reset/restart itself correctly, so we wouldn't have to fumble around. Well now we know.

my god we are in the same boat. I have exactly same issue. After upgrading ATV4 to 9.2, airplay is not working from iphone6s plus. My issue is same as Calushikid explained. I can only get it to work if when I play the video & later go to control center & turn airplay OFF & then back ON, it's the only way I could get it to work as Calushikid mentioned. But this also sometimes works and sometime does not.

I tried full power recycle by pulling out ATV power plug, still no success.

might be a stupid question but have you tried power cycling all of the hardware - iTunes computer, modem, router etc?

Yes and no luck

Hi!

Same Problem here... with Video via Airplay vom iPhone 6s ipad Air (iOS 9.3) to ATV4 (tvOS 9.2)

Video starts on ATV4. Time ist 0:10, then 0:11 and back to 0:10 and so on.

Anynews on that problem?

Martin

Im having the exact same issue with the 0:01,0:02,0:01... so annoying!! i hope this gets fixed!

Same issue. After last updates, AirPlay stuck on two seconds going there and back, even in youtube from MBP's Safari, and close to every time it happens with iPad mini 2. ATV 4.

Ok folks... Was tired of this issue.... Restored back 9.1.1... all is working fine now... Just tested with newly released iphone ios 9.3.1... All is good... Better hurry and restore back to 9.1 before apple stops authorizing old ios restore for apple tv4

Well, what do you know. My prior success with power cycle was only temporary. The problem of airplay loading the video but not playing continues. Simple airplay off/on on the iPad doesn't help. What seems to work fairly reliably is to start the video as if it was going to work, let ATV begin downloading, then hit the menu button. This cancels airplay, and after a moment the video will start playing on the iPad. Now turn airplay back on and playback continues on ATV. Interestingly, when you do this, the video URL appears briefly in the upper right of the TV screen, which never happens normally. Sometimes when I do this, ATV continues playing a previous video, not necessarily the most recent. Closing and reloading the hosting web page seems to fix this. This workaround is a terrible hack, but it will do until Apple can fix the underlying hangup...

As a workaround, i use to play the video little bit on iphone and then hit airplay. URL appears but the video is played by ATV. But this doesnt work on all videos. Some might not work no matter what i did.

I agree. Starting the video on iPad, then switching to airplay only works sometimes. The sequence I suggest, starting the video normally in airplay, menu, airplay back on seems more reliable. Cludgey, but reliable.