Stuttering Video...

[MrMister111]

Hi my setup..

Apple TV with v3.01, ATV Flash v4.06, Buffalo Linkstation NAS, connected wireless via a Linksys Wireless N router to Apple TV

All setup is great, I have all my videos on my NAS, and setup the share on my Apple TV fine. However I have 2 problems..

1) on my share it takes sometimes 20-30 secs to see my movie list which is long (150+ movies)

2) when I play a movie avi, every 30-60secs the movie stutters/jumps/pauses. The stutter is prob less than 1/2sec but is annoying watching a video.

Now I know people are going to say dont use wireless use wired instead, but I dont really want to and everything else works fine. The NAS is not being written/read from apart form the Apple TV at the time. Its not just 1 movie but every one watched so far. I have full wireless signal on my Apple TV. YouTube works, iTunes store works etc. What can the problem be? how can I fix it please, this is spoiling my enjoyment of my Apple TV.

 

[MrMister111]

Ok I'll help myself!!

Still no good on different films, so I fired up XBMC and selected the film off my NAS and it played fine with no stutters. This means it's a problem with nito TV.

Anyone else have this?

 

[wrkngclasshero]

I had a lot of studdering issues and updating to 3.0.2 made a huge difference. Give that a try maybe? Also instead of a NAS, try hooking up the external directly to your computer.

 

[MrMister111]

I had a lot of studdering issues and updating to 3.0.2 made a huge difference. Give that a try maybe? Also instead of a NAS, try hooking up the external directly to your computer.

The same stuttering as I have had? ie using nito TV over a wireless network? Or on a movie on the internal Apple HDD? All movies? Particular ones?

The setup I have is what I want ie Apple TV wirelessly go a NAS (also use PS3).

Did you update to v3.02, use ATV Flash v4.06 and then using nito TV you didn't get any stuttering?

Cheers

 

[wrkngclasshero]

I had different stuttering than you, but I have noticed that overall my ATV experience has been much snappier since the update. I am not familiar with the ATVFlash but with a non modded Apple TV the use of a NAS with iTunes requires an extra router transaction (i.e. TV to Computer to NAS to Comp to TV) whereas the external hooked up to the comp is just tv to comp to TV) That could account for the slow down with apple TV and not XMBC, (XMBC does not use itunes and talks directly to the NAS i think...).

Are you wireless g or N, and if N, do you have an N only or are there G devices on it as well?

 

[MrMister111]

Ah ok my setup is Apple TV to NAS drive wirelessly over an N network

 

[wrkngclasshero]

you may want to try hooking your external up directly to your comp and try the TV and see if that fixes anything. If so, then you have pinpointed your issue. I have 400+ movies attached to my iMac with USB and it streams like a dream (especially with the 3.0.2 setup), the back and forth of wireless from itunes to the NAS is what is likely causing your studder.

Also, are there any G devices on your N network, like an iPhone or printer if so that would slow the network down to G speeds as a network will only run as fast as the slowest device.

Hope this was helpful and I hope i was not restating the obvious.

 

[MrMister111]

Watched a full movie last night using XBMC and played fine. Must be problem with nito TV.