Minor Video Stutter

Question

Just connected the new ATV(2), and watched a few free TV shows...I'm noticing some slight playback stutter (video only) - seems more like an encoding issue than streaming - wired connection, and had no pauses or audio stutters.
It presents sort of like dropped or missing video frames...Curious if any others are noticing this. I'm watching on a projection system (missing the 1080!) so perhaps this issue is exaggerated for me, but it's clearly there...

Answer 1

pcx99 wrote:
I'm seeing some stuttering as well. Every few minutes the picture will just skip (a few dropped frames). No problem with the audio. This is happening on purchased itunes video (HD) and on handbrake encoded video Atv v1 settings. The server is gigabit backbone to wireless N to the atv. Stuttering happens when the progress bar shows a full buffer (IE the video is fully cached). Standard HDMI out to the sharp 720p tv.
The old aTV played these videos without a single skip.
This is worrying - the one thing I assumed they would have ironed out was any video/audio glitches due to network/AppleTV hardware performance issues that affected many with generation 1 devices. It's really a black mark for a media device not to play video perfectly without dropping frames etc
It's pretty insidious, you don't notice it until you do and then you can't stop noticing -- it's really a downer.
I bet
Best guess to the problem: While the video is playing the atv v2 is getting an updated playlist from the itunes server. My library is very large, 1.5tb purchased itunes videos, over 5k mp3s, 5g of pictures, and another tb of ripped home movies, handbrake encoded to atv v1 settings.
That may be the case or it's buffering ahead enough but something else is sleeping and not waking quickly and causing a pause until the stream resumes.
Anyway it's pretty distracting.
Ys, and not one you can troubleshoot synced vs streamed on new unit.
Other annoyances with atv v2:
* Can't log into a netflix account using a gmail address that contains a + (used to alias email addresses)
Suspect that's a simple fix.
* [HD] doesn't show beside HD video anymore.
Conflicting reports on that. The logo irritated me to be honest.
* Movies can no longer be subgrouped by setting show and episode id4 data (So you can't group all your James Bond movies together).
I tended to use genres almost exclusively rather than this but a real retrograde step for those who did.
* TV shows are no longer subgroupped by show, each season is displayed in the master list.
So insetad of say Lost a sa top heading and seasons listed nested within that, I assume you get a top level entry for every season of Lost - is that correct?
I really really hope it's at the very least grouping by season and not showing every individual episode in the top level!
What happens if you use Get Info to change all episodes say to Season 1? - if episode numbers were then set to say 101-106, 201-206, 301-306 etc it might be a workaround to tidy things up.
* My local movie and tv list is no longer grouped under movie and tv on the master menu.
Of course not. My biggest complaint with AppleTV Software 2 on generation 1 devices was it was far too iTunes store centric with your own content relegated to the bottom of commercial menus. Software 3.0+ was near perfect especially if you disabled the store.
Now with AppleTV 2.0 the marketing boffins have clearly decided that iTunes Store rental is the primary reason anyone would/should buy the device to generate iTMS revenue, so yet again your stuff, paid for or home video, is relegated to a submenu - at least that seems to have a FrontRow/AppleTV 1 software 1 simplicity.