I have been using the MBR for a few days now with no issues and no UI lag but today I tried mirroring to ATV3 and was very choppy. My Atv was set to auto (1080P) i changed setting to 720 and it was better. Atv is on ethernet and MBR is on 5ghz. I tried video from several sources. Video was smooth on MBR but choppy on Atv.video
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Choppy Mirroring
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Airplay of my desktop to my ATV has never been great quality, even with the rMBP. However I did not experience a choppy effect when I used it over the weekend with the MBR, just a delay (i.e. mouse/keyboard lag because the laptop has to convert the display to video and transmit). 1080p.
I experience very choppy AirPlay to my Apple TV 3 from my 15" rMBP but I put that down to my router.
Is it choppy on another Mac or smooth? As I haven't had chance to test that.
Is it choppy on another Mac or smooth? As I haven't had chance to test that.
try the Beamer app. Works 100% without any lag. Using it now for about 2 years. Can throw 1080P mkv's at it of about 8 - 10 Gb and playing without lag or hiccups.
http://beamer-app.com/
http://beamer-app.com/
I haven't had any issues, although I suspected maybe choppiness has to do w/ the network bands. Originally, I have my ATV3 connected to my router's 5GHz network. I tried switching it over to 2.4GHz (which is extremely crowded in my neighborhood--I saw about ~35 or more 2.4GHz wifi connections), and airplay was really choppy. I switched back to 5GHz network and it was smooth again.
Although it may seem unlikely, I hope that my neighborhood doesn't all switch over to 5GHz bands on their wifi connections. So far, I am the only one in my neighborhood outputting 5GHz, so my wifi connections have been extremely stable.
Although it may seem unlikely, I hope that my neighborhood doesn't all switch over to 5GHz bands on their wifi connections. So far, I am the only one in my neighborhood outputting 5GHz, so my wifi connections have been extremely stable.