ITunes cannot play my rented movie. The timeline stops and no error message pop up.

Question

I rented two movies from iTunes store yesterday. It's still valid. But my iTunes cannot play it. After I click on the 'play' button, the timeline does no move forward and the screen remains in black. No error message pops up. What's wrong with this iTunes player??

Answer 1

wiclee wrote:
It's always the case because iCloud is active all the time and if the device indicated Backup to iCloud an your computer indicated Backup to Computer, you may run into problem.
But this can never be a problem. When you select "Back up to computer" and press apply, iTunes "updates files" on the iphone. I'm not an engineer and my best guess is that by updating the files iTunes changes the device's settings to point to "Backup to Computer".
[Earlier: The sync button used to be visible only after the files were updated. Now, when "Back up to Computer" is selected and we press apply, iTunes indicates that its updating files but the option then shifts back to "Back up to iCloud"]
Incidentally, I was playing around with this and I clicked on encrypt local back and set a password and iTunes accepted that and updated the backup on my computer. This is pretty wierd considering its not accepting "Backup to computer" otherwise.
wiclee wrote:
I wonder how you were able to do that without turning off iCloud Backup on your device.
I guess the older versions of itunes supported that. This problem cropped up after updating to 10.6.0.4
wiclee wrote:
iTunes 'open when this iPhone is connected' works only when you connect using USB cable.
With Sync over wifi enabled iTunes used to open automatically for me whenever my iPhone logged onto the wifi network. Which was a very useful feature for me. I'm extremely disappointed that this is not working now.