Apple TV Needs a play all option

as the title states, i hate creating playlists and the ease of use is not there..... i have a few cartoon shorts i love just continuously playinf but would like to just hit a play all button.......

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Play All option

I've been making music videos of my granddaughter's softball team. Each video is a separate iMovie project running three and a half to five minutes, depending on the song I use. I export each video as a QT movie at full quality, then bring these into iDVD so the finished DVD will have three or four different videos on it.
I did this earlier this year for her basketball team, and each video shows up on the menu screen as a selection that can be played. I wanted to add a "Play All" option like you see on many commercial DVDs, so all the videos can be watched in sequence without returning to the menu screen, however I could see no way to do this. You have to select one of the videos, it plays then returns you to the main menu when it finishes.
Is it possible to have a Play All option when bringing multiple QT movies into iDVD? I've got version 3 of iDVD. If it doesn't work in that version, does anyone know if a newer version allows this?

In iMovie, sequence what have been your separate iMovie projects into a single, compiled iMovie project. You can add chapter markers at the beginning of each segment.
When you bring the single, compiled project into iDVD you can have the chapter markers automatically listed (see Preferences) on menus as scene/segment selection options. Or you can choose not to list the chapter markers as scenes and still have the capacity to fast-forward on the tv or monitor remote to move from segment to segment.
Given that you have enough space on the DVD, then, you'll have one compiled movie and also separate movies for each segment. I personally like to access the segments as separate movies (as you've already arranged) rather than as scenes.
I'm speaking from my experience with iDVD 4--hoping you have chapter markers in iDVD3!

Is Apple listening regarding the "Buy All" option?

I wish someone could post one good reason for the "Buy All" button to have been eliminated from My Wish List in iTunes 11.

Is Apple listening regarding the "Buy All" option?
Only if you told them.
-> http://www.apple.com/feedback/
I wish someone could post one good reason for the "Buy All" button to have been eliminated from My Wish List in iTunes 11
Because Apple did not want it there.

Is there a 'Play All' option for DVD menu?

Hi,
I was hoping someone can possibly help here... I have created a DVD menu in iDVD with 8 separate movie items each with their own button (with underlined feature), but with no sub menus or additional pages.
Incidentally, these items are home movies, transfered from old Hi8 tapes, edited in iMovie then added to iDVD.
The 8 items have all successfully loaded to the iDVD menu and will play when each item is selected (in test mode).
However, I was hoping to also add a 'Play All' button so that the whole DVD content can be played as one continuous piece if required, rather than being limited to being able to play only individual items at a time and then having to return to the menu page in order to select the next item.
Please can anyone offer any help here? I'm very new to Macs/iDVD etc so simple, basic guidance would be much appreciated!!!
Many thanks,
Robin-UK

Hi Robin
Welcome to apple discussions. I use Toast (personal choice only) in this situation since it has a play all check box. But then you don't get the fancy menus.
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There is no such check box within iDvd for selecting play all but you can set up iDvd's preferences to address scene selection menus when a movie/s is added. And here's how you do that:
A second option might involve adding the 8 separate movies to the slideshow feature within iDvd for continuous play. And yes you can add photos as well as movies to idvd's slideshow feature with a number of added benefits which I won't go into here. But if you want more info on this procedure just look at a few of Old Toad's prior posts / replies on this iDvd forum.
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The "play all" option has been removed from music on Genres, Albums or Artist

When I am in the mood for certain genres such as classical or R&B, I used to be able go straight to the genre and at the very top of all the songs in that genre I could choose "play all". However, since this last update, that option has disappeared. I tried using Siri by making requests like "play classical" but as we all know, Siri can be testy most times and it gets really frustrating.
Apple, please bring back this option, we all don't always just want to listen to playlists.

If I turn it off can I still sync new music that I buy and want on all devices?

Best way to create a seperate Play All option...

On my sub-menus I have an option to Play All of the video titles for that sub-menu. What is the best way to do this? I was planning on creating one time line with the corresponding video clips for each sub-menu. If I do it like this will I have double the amount of data using space on my DVD?
I haven't had the chance to experiment myself... I am waiting on footage to render as I type.
Thanks,
Robert

Robert.
Are these titles all joined together, or separate clips?
If the former, then point the "Play All" to the first chapter, and then create a series of Chapter Playlists, one for each clip, and point the submenu buttons to these. The end actions should go to the submenu they were called from.
If the latter, then set up a series of ordinary playlists.
For "Play All", create a playlist with every clip in the correct sequence.
For the individual clips, simply point the buttons to the individual timelines, and have their end actions reverting to the submenu they were called from.
Hope this helps.

Need Help for Embed Tag to playing all type of video files in any browser

Hai,
I am using the following Embed Tag for playing video files in Browsers.
<OBJECT
ID="mediaPlayer"
CLASSID= "clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
CODEBASE= "http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
TYPE="application/x-oleobject"
STANDBY="Loading media player components..."
HEIGHT="200" WIDTH="250">
<PARAM NAME="showcontrols" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="autostart" VALUE="false">
<PARAM NAME="loop" VALUE="false">
<PARAM NAME="filename" VALUE="photo/video/<%=category%>/<%=image.elementAt(i*4+1)%>">
<EMBED TYPE="video/x-msvideo"
STANDBY="Loading media player components�"
CONTROLLER="true"
CONTROLS="ImageWindow,ControlPanel"
SHOWCONTROLS="true"
AUTOSTART="false"
HEIGHT="200" WIDTH="250"
SRC="photo/video/<%=category%>/<%=image.elementAt(i*4+1)%>" >
</OBJECT>
But this Embed Tag does not playing such type of video files(ex: *.flv, *.mov, *.avi etc.,)
i need to play all types of video files using the Embed Tag.
Can anyone please help me for this.
Edited by: devtamil on Oct 3, 2007 12:27 PM

Hi,
Im having a similar problem and i was wondering if you were able to get a solution??
Thanks for your help.

PLAY ALL - simple? Or no?

Simple SD dvd, 3 tracks, one = 79 min, 1 = 3 min, 1 = 4 min...client also wants a PLAY ALL button. It's about 4.4 GB now. How do I make a PLAY ALL option without causing problems for the end jump on the tracks? How to make a PLAY ALL button/option?
Thanks
K

You cannot use a story structure when you have three different tracks. Stories are sub-sets of the track they are in, and cannot have chapters from different tracks added to them.
You also don't need to go back to FCP - all you have to do, assuming your footage is all the same format (if you have some 4:3 and some 16:9 then you will need to either use a scripted solution or go back to FCP) is take the footage from each track and add it to a single track, one section after the other. You've already compressed it, so just drop all three MPEG files into the same track.
You can then add a chapter marker at the end of the clips (no need for the end of the last one) and use a story structure to get a play all. There are two ways to do this... but in your case you should add all of the chapter markers for the ends of the clips into a single story, and set the menu call and end jump for the story. Your menu then needs a button that points to the story container (and not the track or any chapter marker). The chapters within the story will play back, and the end jump for the story will take place when they all have played back.
As for your last question - yes, you can do this, but you'll need to script it. it's not particularly hard to do, but if you've not done any scripting then I'd go with the story based method above. If you want to see the scripted solution, go back to here: http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/tutorials/play-all-3/
or here for a longer (but certainly simpler) method: http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/tutorials/play-all-1/

PLAY ALL button

I have a DVD SP4 project of about 3. Gb in total and the client needs a 'PLAY ALL' button. The video has 8 existing chapters and adding a play all has been impossible to date. I can't replicate the track as it's too large for the disc. Any ideas?

Use stories or a script
If there is 8 chapters, use markers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 for the Play All Story. Some discussions with variations on the theme below which will give you the details you need.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7006436&#7006436
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4548144&
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6998637&#6998637

Creating play all button

Hi,
Took a quick look at the help regarding creating a "play all" button from 6 separate chapters. I did not find if this can be done. Any idea's?
I have not played with chapter markers - perhaps this is what I need to do - if so I'll have to recreate the seperate chapters or movies in to 1 then add chapter markers. (If I read this right that is what may work).
Thanks
Bill

There is no 'Play All' option in iDVD.
You need to merge your 6 clips into one movie in iMovie HD 6 - NOT iMovie '08 - and create chapter markers.

Does the iPhone support a "Random Play All" feature?

After reading the iPhone manual on-line, I did not see direct support for a "Random Play All" option.
Please tell me that this was an omission in the manual and it is directly supported by the iPhone, because this is a deal breaker for our family if it is not directly suported.

It might help if I had any idea what that feature was.
Do you mean a shuffle feature-where it randomly picks music tracks and plays them?
If so-the 3g iPhone has it.

Is there a "play-all" type feature?

Hi...I'm making my first DVD with iDVD and I was wondering if there is a way to have a "play-all" option. Basically, I have a bunch of small video clips in a sub-menu that I would like to have the option of viewing individually or all in a continuous mode, similar to what you would see on a movie's special features.
I have searched and know that you can "loop" videos together, but it looks like if you do this, then you don't have the option of playing them individually. Is there a way to create an optional "play all" feature?
Any info would be great. Thanks!

Not as you are describing, but you can do a work around. Move your clips into imovie and create a continous movie.During the process add in chapter markers between your clips. Then share the project to idvd. You will get a play movie (to play the entire movie and a scene selection menu that will have your individual movies in it. You can then rename the play movie and scene selection buttons to whatever you want. Or, you can click on folder icon at the bottom of the screen and move the clips around.
David

Connect Independent Clips (Play All)

Hello,
I am new to DVD Studio -- have a fairly simple question I think:
I am making a DVD that will contain a number of short vignettes/films. Each film is independent of the other but I would like a "Play All" option so a viewer can easily watch one after the other after the other.
I know I can accomplish this by compressing all the clips into one big movie, making chapters, and having the chapters selected return to the main menu, but I don't want to have to put all the clips into a single mpeg file (I would rather do subtitles and everything independtly on a clip by clip basis as I work on them).
So, is there an easy way to make all the independent clips play back to back ? Is that the "story" feature ? I played around with it but couldn't figure it out.
Thanks,
Damon

Stories would be the easiest approach and the easiest way to do the stories would be to place them all on one track with chapter markers between each clip
The Play All Story would include all Chapter Markers
If you want just to play a section you add just the marker to the section
For instance if there are 3 clips, with Markers 1,2,3 - PLay All Story would have markers 1,2,3 - Just section 1 would have just marker 1, etc.
http://dvdstepbystep.com/passelections.php
http://dvdstepbystep.com/stories_details.php
There are also other approaches, for instance you can make two stories for each seperate track, so track 1, 2 & 3 would each have a Play All Story and a Play Sol story (each would be identical with one marker, the difference being the end jumps for the stories would be either set to the next track you want to play (Play All) or return to the Menu (Play Solo)
And the last way would be scripting.
Button action would be to a script
mov GRPM (whichever you want) SPRM 8//this sets the GRPM to the button that was pressed. Buttons are in increments of 1024 so easier to divide by 1024 to keep track
div GPRM (whatever), 1024 //makes it 1-4
//assumes button 1 is play track 1, button 2 is play track 2, button 3 is play track 3, button 4 is play all
Jump Track 1 if GPRM = 1
Jump Track 2 if GRPM = 2
Jump Track 3 if GPRM = 3
Jump Track 1 if GPRM = 4 //both selections 1 and 4 will go to track 1 to start
Then the end jumps for each track (could be rolled into one script but you can make a few may be easier to follow)
So for track 1
JUMP Menu, if GPRM = 1 //(play all was not selected so return to menu)
Jump Track 2
So for track 2
JUMP Menu, if GPRM = 3 //(play all was not selected so return to menu)
Jump Track 3
Track 3 will always return to menu since it is last in either event, so just set end jump

Play all and individually

hi all
i have a disc that has one track with 21 different small videos. i want the option of playing one in particular from a menu with all the options in it, and i want it to jump back to the menu when it finishs. however i also want a play all option, so that if you select play all, you can watch all of these videos in sequential order without jumping back. so far i havent figured out how to get both, just one or the other. i tried a story and it screwed up my ability to use the original tracks chapters for end jumps. help please!
austin

Depending on the amount of media, you could do one of two things:
1.) make one master clip ("play all") with chapters, then making a story for each chapter
2.) compress the "play all" clip as well as individual clips for each segment
Either would work, and I would say that if you're working with less than an hour of media you can use the second option. The benefit of the second option is that you can sometimes do a little more with transitions between segments in the "play all" section if you can make separate clips for the segments to play them individually.
At least that's been my experience.

HT200109 Why only sometimes does movies on Apple Tv show the buy option, I need it there all the time?

Why only sometimes does movies on Apple Tv show the buy option, I need it there all the time?

Two reasons:
The movie companies control what Apple can sell/rent - sometimes they simply change it to purchase only or rental only.
Secondly, if your Settings for Itunes store are set to HD sometimes you won't see an option to purchase or even teh movie at all if it's only available in SD.
There are also sometimes discrepancies between iTunes on computer and AppleTV implying the stores work slightly differently or have different connections. Check if it's available in iTunes.
AC

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