ITunes Movies for Apple TV

I understand that movies on Itunes have been ripped at different resolutions. Is it possible to determine what the resolution of movies on ITunes is? (are?)
Thanks,
Gary Dalzell

Adding to what Chris said, they're roughly 640x480, but may vary slightly depending on the exact aspect ratio. There's no way I know of to see the exact resolution prior to purchase.

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TomDenver wrote:
Can Mac Mini Server with OS X Server act as an iTunes sever for Apple TV2?
If you plan to set up a Mini as media server ...
Why not directly using the Mini as media center?
Then you wont need no Apple TV ...
Then your Mini IS the Apple TV, iTunes sever and so on, especially if e.g. a Elgato or WDTV stick or box is added.

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For the past 2 days I have been unable to make purchases from the iTunes store with Apple TV. I get the message "Unable to connect to iTunes Store. Temporarily unavailable. Try again later." Despite this message, I have a valid internet connection and I can still connect to the iTunes store to preview movies and TV shows content with my Apple TV. I just cannot make any purchases. My Apple TV software is currently up to date and I have valid credit in my iTunes account.
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Also having issue, it is ridiculous. Kinda defeats the purpose of having TV if you can't stream any content from iTunes since the change to no hard drive. Come on Apple, I think your better than this.
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I have saved a QT movie with Loop checked. It loops fine after it is saved before I send it to iTunes
When I send it to iTunes it will not loop. For some reason when I create a Playlist with the movie in it and ask it to repeat it does not show up in the playlist when I want to send it to Apple TV.
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Thanks
Kris

How did you do that?
I have been waiting for a solution to loop my movie in Apple TV.
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Thanks millions in advance...

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Hi all.
I have a Mac Mini running Mountain Lion (Now Mavericks but had the same issue before today) with a Pegasus R6 drive storing my iTunes library. The issue I am having is when I go to either one of my Apple TVs about 90% of the movies in iTunes show up in the list. I have re installed the Apple TV OS as well as had one of the units replaced. I don’t get the issue with photos, music, TV shows etc just the movies. Originally I thought it may have been wrong format as there is a combo of DVD rips using Pavtube BD ripper (encoded for Apple TV) and some from my Sony Action Cam but there is nothing consistent about the ones not showing. The strange thing is when I locate these movies that are not listed in iTunes and use the airplay feature to send it to the Apple TV it has no issues at all? As a side note I had the same issue on my old network but not have 4 brand new Airport Extremes and this mini was a replacement for an iTunes that had the same issues so I don’t think its OS.
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Where are the movies from, are they iTunes movies.

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I don't.
However, my slow broadband connection enables me to stream instatly HD content from Netflix, BBC and now Amazon.
So, if I wanted to watch a movie on a journey, I guess downloading the whole movie would do the trick if I planned ahead.
But there are alternatives, particularly for those of us who still have DVD drives.
So, is iTunes movie just designed for commuters?
I think we should be told.

Thank you for getting back so quickly.
If I knew how to remove my post I would.
As for the problem, I don't know where to turn. Twitter, perhaps.

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When is Itunes going to make their movies available to all pad user, i.e. Kindle Fire?
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I'm afraid not. You can't share a WiFi connection via WiFi.

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I've had this problem for the last few months.
When I watch the trailer on ATV, the sound is fine. The sound also works great when we watch Netflix, Youtube or Video Podcasts.
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Alternative: I downloaded the movie onto my laptop and used Airplay to view it on my TV.
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ZenFury wrote:
rip my movies in 5.1
most posts I've seen with surround not working and rip have turned out to be a error 40 in terms of ripping configuration

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My Mac is operated in a Wireless Environment and when using Apple TV sometimes the IMAC cannot be located despite home sharing being on both devices and when it can be located and I watch a movie that is stored there sometimes the signal drops off which interrupts the movie.
The Apple TV is connected in a wired environment.
SOmeone has suggested that I should move my Itunes library music and movies to a NAS drive and connect that to my router which is hard wired,
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Update: I've found a work-around that lets me watch the movies, although it disables the iTunes Extras content (but it's not deleted).
While looking through the files for the Extras content, I noticed that for the two films I've had trouble with (X-Men Origins and Twilight), the Extras content was located in a separate folder from the actual mp4 movie files. For all my other movies that have the Extras content (and that were working), the content was in the folder with the movie. I tried moving the content into the movie folders, but that didn't help. Eventually, I removed the extras content from my iTunes library, without actually deleting it.
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Andreas Jung1 wrote:
I have a bunch of videos I downloaded in AVI format
it's probably a codec issue. do you have Perian installed ?
anyway, i recommend you use this app to convert the files to mp4 rather than mov. if you have TV2, select the preset for it.

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