Jumpy playback from my apple tv

I have had my apple tv for about a month, can watch movies downloaded from i tunes with no bother. Downloaded a tv show and now watched it through the apple tv and it was really jumpy and jittery playback. i then checked another tv show and that was the same, however tried a movie and playback was perfect. can someone help me as i'm at a loss. I was streaming it from my macbook pro.... any help would be excellent

it sounds like an issue with your network.Also is b/g/ or N standard router.
Try restarting your router and ATV2.
Are you doing anything else on the network while your watching the downloads

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We have even tried using After Effects and Premier to the same result. Rendered it straight from Quicktime Pro, same. Rendered it to 720p30, same. Render it to 24fps, same. I had another editor render it using whatever methods he wanted to use... same. Tried Compressor, SAME. Tried Adobe Media Encoder, SAME......We even, god forbid, used a PC running Premier and built the image sequence and rendered to h264 at 30fps, 5mbs.... @#$@#$ SAME!
We just remade the 3D Studio Max export into a 60fps animation since I thought that the individual frames we appearing too far apart and thus causing the jumpyness. That was causing the playback of the upclose objects flying across the screen fast to appear jittery, but not the random playback jumps. The 60fps did smooth out the animation greatly during fast flybys, but the playback jumps are still there in all players, QT, VLC, the web, etc.
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