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I have taken forum suggestions from other people with this problem and downgraded my firmware to various versions, but each is still having the same problem. The firmware versions do change the severity of the problem, but none have resolved it. It seems like there are enough people reporting this issue that it would be addressed by now. Is this something that is being worked on or should I just return the WD and get another Boxee? I really like the WD because of the size, but it does me no good if I cannot watch any of my movies.
Linksys WUSB600N Dual-Band Adapter on the WD.
Linksys WUSB100 RangePlus Adapter on the Boxee.
Linksys WRT350N router running the latest DD-WRT firmware.
My Seagate is connected and shared from a Windows 2008 Server (Standard Edition) on a Dell PowerEdge T310 Tower Server. No DLNA, standard Windows file sharing enabled.
I have tried mainly ISO files since 90% of my collection are movies I have burned to ISO images.
I have also seen it with other files as well though, like AVI for instance.
I swapped the USB adapters between my Boxee and my WD. My Boxee continued to play movies without any issue. The WD continued to see the same issue. That means two different Cisco adapters are seeing the same issue on my WD and those same two adapters work fine on my Boxee.
Now since the rooms are literally next to each other, I tried the wired connection. Ran a long cat 6 around the corner and set the connection type to wired. The wired connection worked fine. No playback issues whatsoever.
My WD TV Live media player does the exact same thing. I was searching online to see if anyone else had the same problem and I found this thread. It does not matter which hard drive we use, which video file we are viewing, it just starts going into slow motion about 20 minutes into the film or TV show. We watched these same programs succesfully for about 6 months before it started happening. We have now given up using it as we cannot view anything without it happening.
The first movie I tried to play after updating to 1.08.17 in Netflix was Open Season 3. The movie has some crazy ghosting/pixelation going on. You only have to play the first minute or two and please let me know if you get the same. Other movies I have tried so far play fine. If anyone could report back and let me know how it plays for you on the SMP I would be most appreciative.
EDIT: Just tested this movie in Netflix on a Boxee Box and it plays fine.
EDIT2: My box is wired and I have a 15 megabit connection to the internet
EDIT3: Other movies effected are The Secret of Kells and Open Season 2
Well I found a fix BUT not the kind of fix I wanted. I logged into netflix.com and went to my account /manage video quality and changed it from BEST QUALITY to BETTER QUALITY and the issue is gone. Any thoughts???
After 2 calls to netflix my issue still persists. They are looking into the issue and told me I should receive and email in 24-48 hours. Here is a bandwidth chart from the same movie streamed from Netflix on a Boxee Box using the same ethernet cable. As you can see there is quite a difference in the average transmission rate.
It appears that the Boxee Box is limited to a 720p stream from Netflix while the Live SMP can pull a full 1080p stream. This is why Boxee can stream these movies no problem while Live SMP has issues. There is an issue somewhere with the 1080p encodes or the way the Live SMP handles the stream.
everytime i try to use airplay mirroring for playing movies, hulu, etc it is always choppy. Both my iMac and my AppleTv 3 is up to date, both are plug directly into the router (netgear R6200), i turn off WMM setting in my router settings, tried different HDMI cables, even a different router and still the same. When i use Hulu and netflix directly from my ApplyTv i have no issue it works perfectly. Please Help i have ran out of ideas
Hate to say it, but I've tested this on multiple Macs with a couple of different AppleTV's and they all have the same problem. I've tried this using both WiFi as well as direct ethernet connection. There is a serious flaw in the MacOS implementation of Airplay Mirroring that doesn't exist under iOS. For instance, when I connect various iPhone and iPads to the AppleTV, the mirroring works flawlessly. Never a hiccup. Only under MacOS does this problem appear. And it happens Every. Single. Time.
I've tested every possible network LAN configuration I could think of.... to no avail. And I'm running gigabit ethernet throughout. Also tested with WiFi and turning off all QoS, etc. Nothing changes. Even testing 10+ computers with different versions of MacOS (10.10.x - 10.12.x) and they all have the identical problem. However, iOS mirroring works flawlessly. There is something vastly different with the MacOS implementation of Airplay than the iOS version. It appears Apple needs to seriously address this persistent problem.
Hi. Are you familiar with the difference between mirroring and basic AirPlay (video streaming)? Mirroring requires the graphics chip to convert the screen buffer to video, while basic AirPlay just works with the video you're watching. The following describes this in more detail.
Video AirPlay works in two modes. Basic AirPlay just sends the video URL to Apple TV, which then streams it directly. This usually works best since there's no double transmission. You're using basic AirPlay when the video player on your device goes black and says "This video is playing on Apple TV". On a computer, you enable this using the AirPlay icon that appears in the controls of a screen video player object, inside the browser or other app. On iPad or iPhone, use the AirPlay controls on the right hand pane of the iOS 10 Control Center (on iPhone, tap the arrow with circles icon at the bottom), or the AirPlay icon in the video player. An app can prevent basic AirPlay, and a website may have requirements that only work in the browser, so basic AirPlay may not always work.
The other mode is Mirroring, which generates an H.264 video stream from the device frame buffer and transmits it over WiFi to Apple TV. This video compression inherently limits resolution, and may have trouble with fast motion. On iPad or iPhone, mirroring is on the left hand pane of the iOS 10 Control Center. On a Mac computer, you access this mode from the AirPlay icon in the main menu bar. It lets you mirror the main display, or create a new display, extending the desktop. But remember that the data sent to the Apple TV is always being converted to a live video stream. Unlike a normal wired monitor connection, actual display frame buffer pixels are not transmitted. When you put the iPad or iPhone video player into full screen mode, mirroring may automatically switch to basic AirPlay. If the server doesn't support basic AirPlay, this may prevent mirroring full screen video.
I can guarantee, with absolute certainty, that it isn't my network. We run 4K/6K/8K RED cam footage over this network regularly. Many of the machines I tested on were running 1Gb/2Gb and even 10Gb connections via a very high-end Cisco switch.
Again, it is working just fine here and for the majority. The difference is the network, (if you have other activity occurring on the network when you attempt to mirror then that will be a factor)you can either do further troubleshooting or take it elsewhere (or to Apple) for testing.
At the AppleTV port it is getting 106MB/sec peak with an average of 98MB/sec. Latency is less than 2ms. No lost packets. Source Mac has nearly identical report regardless of which machine I perform tests. I have tested this on other 1Gb Ethernet machines. All getting nearly identical performance. Machines tested include the new Mac Pro 12-core w/ 64GB RAM and two 2015 iMacs both with i7 processors and 32GB RAM. Single apps running on all machines with less than 10% CPU usage through testing.
Hi Doug Stringham. It sounds like you have a very high performance wired network. If you're using DHCP for Apple TV, you might check the DHCP server logs. Apple TV on ethernet can generate a lot of extra DHCP lease renewal requests. If it's doing that, it might be a cause for glitches in playback. Also, it may not matter, but the Apple TV ethernet interface is 10/100 Mb/s only.
We're about a dozen games into the season, and MLB.tv still hasn't fixed this issue. I've emailed and called, and the customer service reps are reading manuals! They have no idea what they're doing at MLB.tv - they are by far the WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE I've ever come across. I have no connection problems as evidenced by Netflix, Vudu, and other streaming apps I use, so I can only assume the problem originates at MLB.tv's streaming through Apple TV. APPLE TV: PLEASE FIX/RESOLVE THIS ISSUE. IT SEEMS NO ONE AT MLB.TV KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE DOING!
Sudden reboots of MLB reverting to main menu very common. Picture quality variable and never good. Buffering delays common. MLB needs to talk with Netflix and Hulu about their streaming algorithms. And while we're at it, Apple signing up Hulu to this service would be a winner.
Yup. I get the same issue. I have actually unplugged my AppleTV2 and reconnected my Original AppleTV and watch the games with Boxee installed, via Boxee's MLB.tv app. I have to watch games in non-HD mode, and it actually looks pretty good. Much less annoying than watching the MLB.tv app on my ATV2. I'm sacrificing the HD picture, for a stable stream/feed/whatever.
I purchased Apple TV from the Apple Store about 1-month ago to watch Netflix & MLB.TV my goal is to rid myself of Direct TV. Apple overall has a fine product here with lots of potential, however I am experiencing about the same problem everyone else is with regard to streaming the MLB games. Yesterday I watched the latest Yankee game in archives and the transmission was excellent. However it seems that the live HD broadcasts have ongoing problems with the stream freezing momentarily and regularly. This is a frustrating problem that Apple needs to address going forward. I noticed yesterday that Apple discontinued streaming the Volvo 'slide show' advertisement, this is a good thing, perhaps that useless data transmission slowed things down, since I had no issues with the streaming of yesterday's game? One can only hope. Apple you have a fine product here, add Hulu and address the streaming issues and it will be perfect!
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