Streaming Quality

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  1. webbymac, Oct 11, 2014

    webbymac macrumors newbie

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    Hi, recent ATV3 owner here.

    If I stream an Internet streamed movie to my iPhone 4S (iOS 7.1.2) in 720p HD, it looks great and plays with no digital artifacts like blocking or stuttering. As soon as I Airplay it to my ATV I get blocking and stuttering. Why is this?

    The ATV is on the same network as the iPhone.
     
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  2. 2010mini, Oct 11, 2014

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    Because your iPhone is now doing double duty. Streaming to your iPhone from the source. Then from your phone to the Apple tv.
     
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  3. webbymac, Oct 11, 2014

    webbymac thread starter macrumors newbie

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    I thought that when you airplay, you 'hand over' the stream to the airplay receiver, no?
     
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  4. Alrescha, Oct 11, 2014

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    You are referring perhaps to "AirPlay from iCloud" which arrived with iOS 6. Perhaps it is self-explanatory, but that works with iCloud content, not some random stream you might find on the Internet.

    There are some Safari hacks for OS X (Click to Flash comes to mind) that will forward compatible URLs to an Apple TV for playing.

    A.
     
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  5. z06gal, Oct 11, 2014

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    I have spent all day dealing with this issue. We have directv and there are a number of channels that they allow for watching on computer. It looks great on the computer and the video actually looks very good on the Apple TV 3 but the choppiness is mind numbing. I have all wired connections and have set my airplay devices to the highest priority in the QoS settings. I have the fastest internet connection TW offers here so it isn't speed. Everything is up to date so I am out of ideas as to why this is occurring. If you figure it out, please post ;)
     
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