General Performance Issues on ATV

[bunger]

I have the 2.8GHz 24" iMac and a brand new AppleTV. The ATV is connected to a Sony 40" LCD tv ( kdl-40v3000 ) via hdmi and connected to my gigabit wireless router via a wired connection. The iMac is about 30' away from the router and is connected via wireless. I have the latest build of boxee running on both.

I have noticed a marked difference between the two units: navigating the boxee "screens" is fluid and fast on the iMac, but herky jerky on the ATV and the video quality seems to display much better on the iMac ( which is set for full 1080 resolution ). Actually, the entire boxee interface appears more crisp on the iMac.

I am just curious if anyone else has seen this and what anyone's thoughts were...

tia,
B

[ShakeBobWillis]

Well since your iMac is way more powerful than the AppleTV it sort of stands to reason you're going to get better performance on the iMac than the Apple TV.

[nonliteral]

For certain the ATV is pretty anemic compared to a 2.8 GHz iMac, but I was just noticing myself that the new build of Boxee seems to be somewhat slower on the ATV than the previous release...

[nonliteral]

Just to put a little more to this than "it seems slower", I found a more concrete example -- adding subtitles to a tv show slows it down enough that the video visibly stutters and drops frame once the subtitles are added. This was while playing a show that previous episodes (all encoded the same) had played fine with subtitles on.

Outside of that, the most noticable things are that it often takes 30 - 45 seconds for a video start (SMB share on local network, 100baseT from ATV to a gigabit hub, gigabit from there), and it can often take up to a minute for the "what your friends have watched / what you've watched / new additions / etc." screen to display.

I'm running the current release of Boxee on ATV 2.2 (with ATV updates disabled).

[ShakeBobWillis]

That seems slower than normal. I'd say Boxee on my AppleTV runs faster than that. The 'what you watched/friends watched' screen usually only takes a few seconds to load from my experiences anyway.