AppleTV 4 suddenly stopped playing home shared movies

[brian.leveille]

I have iTunes on my mac home sharing to my AppleTV 4. Just today, it seems it has trouble playing movies - selecting one just buffers forever.

TV shows from home sharing play fine - I played a TV show and it didn't even buffer! Started playing immediately.

I've tried restarting AppleTV and iTunes (I have not rebooted my Mac yet)

Anyone else see anything similar?

Thanks,

-BL

 

[benjitek]

Take a look at Infuse or Plex if rebooting your Mac and router doesn't help.

 

[brian.leveille]

Turned out to be my wireless network - I had hard-coded the channel choices for my airport extreme a long time ago to deal with some interference. Looks like some new interference developed and it killed my wifi performance. I set my AE to be 'automatic' for all channels and everything returned to normal.

 

[whoiare]

Take a look at Infuse or Plex if rebooting your Mac and router doesn't help.

thats no help at all. I too have started having weird buffer issues with my home shared movies and tv shows. A simple restart of the ATV4 fixes the issue. It all started with the last software update. My atv is hardwired and the movies play fine on my other ATV3s.

 

[benjitek]

thats no help at all.

Maybe not for you, doesn't apply to everyone though...

 

[pjarvi]

On Windows: close iTunes, restart the Bonjour service, re-open iTunes.
On MacOS: close iTunes, restart the mDNSresponder service, re-open iTunes.

I',m not 100% sure if that will resolve the issue on a Mac but have done that on Windows whenever iTunes Home Sharing stops responding.