Apple TV owners' thread. - Page 11

Tried turning off home sharing in diff places / combos, but can never get A to show up on the aTV.. The only wireless device in this scenario is the Macbook (C) which is working fine, everything else is wired (aTV = gig, pc B = gig, pc A -= 100 mb).. I tried bypassing the 100 mb switch on that one and went straight into the wall for gigabit- but it didn't have any effect..

Not all of these devices are fixed ip, its about half and half.. I guess I could try changing that and see if anything improves but I don't know why it would..

I had the problem that my 2 ATV's weren't showing up in remote.app . It had something to do with the initial naming of the AppleTV. I had three on the network. I basically pulled the plug on them and refreshed the network after renaming them appropriately. Now they are all there.

Philip

Edit: mine are not fixed ip's. One is wired. The other is wireless and I have so many routers and switches that I am amazed it worked. It may very well be a simple refresh of the network.

Mine does that -- when I switch my receiver to the ATV, the light sometimes comes on but no picture till I hit menu.

I think you have to actually unplug them from the network, turn them off, etc... Just turning off home sharing won't fix it (it didn't for my issue that I mentioned above in post 303).

philip

Interesting.. I tried renaming the aTV last night but it didn't do anything.. I'll try unplugging all the switches / routers in the house to see if that has any effect.. I'm starting to think that something w/ bonjour is just screwed up on this particular system.

Anyone else having their streamed music (from a Mac Mini) continue to stream but stop producing audio. The Mini/iTunes says it's still streaming but there isn't any sound. The moment I switch iTunes from the Apple TV to my computer it works fine and starts working again when I switch back. Bandwidth shouldn't be an issue as I can stream movies without any issues.

I haven't turned on the TV set to see if there are any messages (which I will now) but since iTunes says all is well I'm guessing I won't see any. So far it appears to happen after about 4 or 5 songs. My Mini is rather busy at the time but I don't know if that makes any difference...

No, its not on. Its in some "I saw the HDMI port light up so I illuminated my LED" state. It consistently does this, this is with a SONY LCD television.

There's something in HDMI that let's device control each other's states. Not everything supports it, but perhaps the AppleTV does and lets itself be turned on by your TV, for example? Speculating.

Yep, that's what happens with one of my ATV's hooked up to a Samsung.

philip

same here on my onkyo. it hasn't bothered me too much, though. it's nothing like my popcorn hour that i just retired. that thing had huge hdmi issues. if it ever powered off, i had to sit there and restart it 5-10 times before it would show up.

Are you referring to having to press a button on the remote to see a picture even though the white light is solid?

philip

I stream music from my Mini and haven't had that happen. I have had the ATV screen saver on while streaming and I'd switch to a video and I'd hear the audio but not a picture until I pressed a button on the remote.

philip

New ATV owner here and I must say, quite a purchase for $99. Love it.

I just finished moving my entertainment system and this happened when I flicked the switch on my surge protector. I haven't tested to see whether or not everything is ok with the Apple TV after the move, though.

Finally resolved this horribly annoying problem.. It had to do w/ my nic not being in promiscuous mode (all packets allowed to be received) which screws up bonjour.. Took care of that and presto, there was the home share showing up on the ipad remote and aTV.. Finally

Correct- there were driver issues with this card that had to be worked around..

Yes, the SONY TV has that HDMI device control - but I have it turned off.

Well we can suggest my theory might be incorrect then.

After a few more hours the audio hasn't cut off again but this morning when I turned on (I kill its power via my AV receiver) the Apple TV it was back to factory settings. All of my user settings were gone such as wireless and it was set to send data to Apple which I had set to Off. Going to swap units and see if I have any better luck.

It appears they have hit their saturation mark at least at my local Fry's. They got in 3 dozen or so a few days back and the majority of them (if not all) are still there.

Yep. I'm not that mean to my gear. I presume the still streaming audio without any audio wasn't the Apple TV's fault as when it happened it would still produce user interface sounds but when it lost the user settings I decided to swap.

For what it's worth I have very little bandwidth (1.5Mbps) and I compared the Netflix image to a PS3 and LG BD570. The BD570 looked very bad like Edge Enhancement was out of control creating a very coarse image. The Apple TV and PS3 were much more similar. To notice any real difference I had to freeze the image and when I did I thought the Apple TV had more detail (columns in the background appeared more defined). Of course the PS3 was upscaling the image to 1080p and the Apple TV to 720p and my set up to 1080p (my set's upscaling isn't very good).

I also noticed the Apple TV was only using .8Mbps for streaming and the PS3 used between 1.0Mbps to 1.2Mbps. Tomorrow I'll be playing around with 6Mbps and hopefully I'll be impressed with the increased speed.

Has anyone noticed that certain movies don't display in the correct aspect ratio on the Apple TV when streamed from Netflix? I was watching Tell No One on the ATV and kept thinking that the people looked weird. So I then watched it on my Mini hooked up to the same TV. This is 720p in both cases and 16:9 selected for the TV. On the Mini the movie was perfect. On the ATV it was more like a 2.3 to 1 apse t ratio. This rarely happens but on occasion it does and is easily replicated.

The reception via the Mini uses Siverlight while the ATV does not. Perhaps that is the issue? Normally the ATV is far better in Netflix.

Philip

I dont think its a bug. the gen1 atv behaved the same way and definetely managed its power state based on the state of the connected HDMI device.

For example: if the AVR was off the ATV will not show up as a valid airtunes set of speakers. once the AVR is on, the ATV wakes up and now can act as a remote set of speakers.

Sean

Sucks that the new Apple TV resamples audio to 48KHz including Apple lossless (ALAC) 44.1 KHz m4a files

Sounds like that's a bad thing. Sound quality is important to me, I'm streaming my library from my Mac to the ATV, (most are originally Apple Lossless or WAV). Sounds good to me which I know matters most....but are you suggesting that I'm really hearing a really compressed sound like an mp3 might sound? Thanks. Mike