Daily Rebooting Needed on New Apple TV?

[priitv8]

Thanks for the heads up. Will check it out tonight. I have used Handbrake for so many years but never for mp4s until recently.

Also, try to set your media type to Movie (instead of Home Video) in Subler. There was a discussion here in forum, that someone experienced the video stutter exactly with home videos on aTV.
If your source already is in AVC (H.264/x264) video, you really don't need to re-encode, as orpheus1120 said.
You might still want to do this for very large/high bitrate files, just to ease up the life of your aTV and network.
For example straight blu-ray rips that weigh anywhere from 30-50GB in size (bitrate 30+Mbit/s) will give less problems, if you Handbrake them down to 5-10Mbit/s rate (4-10GB file size).
AFAIK, iTunes movies are still encoded with 5 Mbit/s bitrate.
Actually, Handbrake does amazing job in picture quality vs bitrate. That might explain the time it takes to encode.

 

[Juicy Box]

I would like to give you a suggestion or solution, but other than the things other posters have said, I really don't have any.

I have experience the frozen screen a few times, but not in a while. I think a while back, I switched to 5GHz on my AirPort Extreme and that fixed, or reduced the freezing. I think the freezing was when playing movies ripped with HB that I had stored on iTunes.

I did not have this or the many other problems on the ATV3. I wonder if the cache size on the ATV4 is smaller than the ATV3 when buffering movies from iTunes. Because, the ATV4 buffers my local iTunes movies, especially home movies a lot more than the ATV3 ever did.

I have noticed a lot of little annoying bugs that seem to disappear after a restart, at least for a day or two.

There are a lot of threads with choppy, or laggy video, mostly from YouTube app since the last update.

I have had so many issues with my ATV4, that I went back to my ATV3 for my main TV. I think it is a software issue. It seems that many issues since the launch have been fixed with updates, but some have been added.

It could be a hardware related issue(for both yours and mine ATV4), but I have had so many issues with my Apple products in the last year, and with the many bad experiences I have had with Apple support and the genius bar, I really don't have the time or patience to deal with Apple anymore. At least not at the moment.

 

[ixxx69]

I've had every ATV since gen1, and the ATV4 is by far the buggiest. I've had mine for six months, and I've have to reboot mine every one to three days due to a variety of issues from choppy video, endless buffering, no sound, screen lag, crashing apps, etc. A reboot always fixes the issue.

My ATV3 was much more stable - I only needed to reboot about every 2-4 weeks. My ATV4 is connected directly with ethernet, and my wireless network (AirPorts) works great for all my other devices.

I have several friends with ATV4's and they all have similar issues... but the funny thing about people is that even my friends were sort of in denial about it at first... when I first asked them, it was like the ATV4 is great - no issues!... but then the more questions I asked, the more they admitted (realized) that they had all the same issues (as it turns out to be the case 93% of the time anyone says something like this works "perfectly" for them).

The apple apologists will always try to spin it as *you* are doing it wrong. Sometimes that is the case, but not with the ATV4. Still holding out hope Apple gets its act together.

 

[Juicy Box]

The apple apologists will always try to spin it as *you* are doing it wrong. Sometimes that is the case, but not with the ATV4.

This is so true. I also have had all four ATVs, and the 4 is a disappointment. But, the excuses never end.

Back in November, I was posting some of the issues I was having with my ATV4 on the MR forums. I had many people make comments such as "your doing it wrong" and "I don't have those issue, so it must be hardware issues", and many similar ones.

Most of the bug issues I complained about have been fixed with updates, so I think that would rule out the hardware statements. It is now 7 months after I bought my ATV4, and I still think it is a disappointment. It could have been great, but with the goofy bugs, crappy UI on Apps that the ATV3 version is so much better(Netflix for example), and the app limitations on game developers, I find myself looking elsewhere for future TV boxes.

 

[ixxx69]

It is now 7 months after I bought my ATV4, and I still think it is a disappointment. It could have been great, but with the goofy bugs, crappy UI on Apps that the ATV3 version is so much better(Netflix for example), and the app limitations on game developers, I find myself looking elsewhere for future TV boxes.

Totally agree. It's a whole other topic, but the ATV4 UI is poorly designed, the ATV4 Netflix app is horrible (unfortunately, I've read it's the same app Netflix uses on all of the newer media players, otherwise I'd get a new Roku tomorrow). And most of the TV apps have poor UI designs (e.g. HBO).

 

[orpheus1120]

I suggest all of us leave feedbacks to Apple so that they can sort out this mess. It's not like the hardware isn't capable for full functional capabilities. It can be resolved within the next 1-2 firmware iterations.

 

[Daremo]

OP, you shouldn't be using Handbrake. Instead use Subler to remux your video files. The files you screenshot are H.264 videos. By using Handbrake you are transcoding the files which takes a longer time, while Subler remuxes them which is a whole lot faster.

I use MP4Tools in the same way. It's a great app as well.

 

[orpheus1120]

I use MP4Tools in the same way. It's a great app as well.

That I used too, together with MKVTools. But I'm mainly using MP4Tools for DTS to AC3/AAC conversions. Then import into Sulber for final metadata tagging.

 

[SD-B]

Will check it all out.
I am not saving my movie/tv files, just viewing and deleting.
Just to grab the odd show i can't get in Canada and must get online.
So far they have all seemed fine but will check all this info out.
[doublepost=1466608356][/doublepost]I much prefer the earlier ATVs- Did not have these problems with earlier APTVs, nor do in the rest of my home, yet they are further away, whilst the problematic 4 is closest and by all rights should work better

 

[Snoopy4]

New bug similar to this. All of the titles aren't showing up under movies. Takes a couple of restarts to relist all titles.