My apple tv 2 is running latest firmware 4.4.4 and now mediaPlayer 1.3xx (latest), but since i upgraded MediePlayer from v1.1 to v1.2 and now 1.3 (and firmware), I have had problems playing movies smoothly from my Local Synology DS408, also with latest firmware. I Thought i was because i’am running wireless, but today I tested it with wired connection, but no change, still playing, not smoothly.
If I do make same test, same cable, same movie on my Tvix HD Cafe, it plays perfect.
I have tested my apple tv 2 with diff. movies, but no result.
When i go into “movie rent” and choose to play the sample of a movie, it plays perfect.
The problem seems to have started after i upgraded the firmware to FW 4.4.4.
The problem occurs with both xvid/dvix and mkv/x264 files.
Audio is always perfect but the picture is sometimes litle out of sync and it corrects itself again. This cycles during the whole video. Sometimes you also observe little jumps in the video.
I did some more investigation and the problems seems to occur only when you have external subtitles.
I played an xvid file with burnt-in subtitles and that played perfectly via the wireless interface. If you play a file with external .srt subtitles the stuttering is present.
I suspected the choppy playback had to do with the fact that I was using WiFi. I installed a cable and run the AppleTV now via wired ethernet. The issue stays: choppy playback.
I have the same problem with different movie files since i think version 1.0 or after upgrading to the last firmware 4.4.4. Every time you release an update i hope you fixed it
sorry to say it, but update did not help at all…
first i updraded atvflash to 1.4.1, but it did not help
then i got latest seas0npas, and installed/jailbreaked it with apple firmware 5.0
again installed atvflash 1.4.1…
still the same problem… when plaing normal dvd (iso) it does not play smoothly, like its missing some frames…
tested with and without cable on my synology ds408, with latest firmware 4.0
and again tested with my tvix cafe hd… play’s perfectly… hmm…
so now I’ve had my firecore solution not working since firmware 1.0 and 1.1, at this time it was working…
I absolutely love the software, but this problem is pretty bad with any XVID files at 720p. Unfortunately, much of my library was encoded with these settings the getting this fixed will be great for me.
yes, yes, yes…
aTV 2 flash upgrade today to v. 1.5 solved my playing issue…
tested 3 tree movies with wireless connection to my synology.
now it plays perfect and smoothly…
