Poor music video quality, example new Beyoncé album

Has Apple any plans to change the poor SD quality?
It makes no sense for me to purchase such a bad quality.

Has Apple any plans to change the poor SD quality?
Nothing that has been announced.
It makes no sense for me to purchase such a bad quality.
In that case, do not purchase.

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HT204370 poor music video quality

I have downloaded several itunes music videos, but so far I have been very disappointed. They have all been a poor quality on the computer monitor, ipad and ipod, the audio is too quiet to even hear properly in one!
Yesterday I downloaded PON PON PON by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and the quality of the video is terrible. It is hazy, unclear and the colour is faded. The sound is not great either.
I was wondering if there was a way for me to improve the quality or if this is just the regular quality of videos from itunes? If so, I would be better to watch it on youtube, it has a far better quality even if it does buffer.
Has anyone else experienced this issue?

I have the same problem, the colour and quality of the Pon Pon Pon video is absolutely horrendous. Did you find a resolution to this problem?

HT1296 The videos from the new beyonce album won't sync to my iPhone.

When I sync the Beyonce album to my iPhone it only puts the music on it but not the videos and I have ample space on my iPhone. How do I solve this?

Under the sync options in itunes for music, check off sync music videos

Uploaded music videos to my new ipad and when I try to play it, it says the requested url was not found on this server.

When I uploaded music videos to my new ipad mini and when I try to play it, it says "the requested url was not found on this server.
the Video will not play.

See this previous discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16962474#16962474

Music Video quality is poor - Apple TV

Does anyone know why the music videos purchased in the iTunes store are not HD or a higher resolution than what they are? I have an Apple TV in my home theater room with a 106 inch screen and the videos look like I am playing a VHS tape. I don't understand how I can watch HD movies and TV shows on my ATV but Music Videos look like crap! I have about 74 music videos too!

Viper200 wrote:
Newer music videos are all shot in HD. This is apparent when you go to youtube/vevo and watch the music vids in 720/1080p.
You can of course, use any number of Firefox addons to download the HD music videos off youtube/vevo and then use a pass-thru/remuxer like iVi (available on app store) or Remux to rewrite the headers of the videos to make them idevice/ATV compatible without recompression.
BTW 1080p converted youtube vids look GORGEOUS on the new ATV/ipad3!
That annoys me so much.
When I didn't have the means, I could still watch music videos in HD for freebs per your description. Now I'm able to buy them (and I want to), but as far as I can see the legit source is rubbish.
Am I missing something or is this one of those ineffable Apple things that I have to come to terms with if I'm going to join the herd?

IPad 2 Music Video Quality

I just restored my new IPad 2 from my IPad 1 backup. When I watched a music video that had been transferred there's a noticeable difference in the video quality. The IPad 2 video is not as clear/clean. Like going from watching something in HD to non HD. Is there a setting I should be looking for or could I have done something wrong when I restored from the IPad 1 backup? Thanks for any suggestions/help.

oldbailey wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion but no it's not a streaming issue. Same video being played on my new and old IPads and the new IPad has a poorer quality picture. I restored the new IPad and reloaded the video directly from my MacBook Air and the video is still not as clear. I paused the video on both units in the same frame and you can see pixilation on the new IPad. Apparently a hardware issue. I called Apple and they are having me return the unit for repair. I hope the new one has better resolution/video quality.
I see no difference in quality of videos resident on the iPad1 and iPad2...the quality is identical...which leads me to believe you may indeed have a hardware problem.

Music videos being shown within the album list

is it just me, or are music videos now being shown within the music section as well ?
for example.
a video for a single is correctly being shown in the "music videos" section within "my music".
however when i go into "my music" > "artists" > "single" - it is showing the video in there along with the music tracks.
now i'm pretty sure that they weren't being shown there before, but they are now and it makes is confusing when looking for play 1 track and it is now listed twice, 1 track and 1 video.

They have always been there on mine, same as Front Row on my Mac. The thing that bugs me is they are listed as 'Unknown Album' unless you assign an album name for the video track. This is true for all the music vids from iTunes. It doesn't look very professional. I might just add the album name 'Video' to them all so it looks a bit better.

Just downloaded the new Beyoncé album

Just downloaded Beyoncé album on my iPhone, I don't want the videos on there can I delete them from my phone, but it won't delete them from my iTunes library will it? I would still like to keep them on my iPad.

Hi, Lynsey_mj.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here are the steps that show you how to delete videos from your iPhone. Also, there is a new feature in iOS 7 that shows you all your purchases made with your Apple ID. To disable this feature go to Settings > Videos, then turn off Show All Videos.
Delete a video. Tap Edit in the upper right of your collection. To delete an individual episode of a series, swipe left on the episode in the Episodes list. Deleting a video (other than a rented movie) from iPhone doesn’t delete it from the iTunes library on your computer, and you can sync the video back to iPhone later. If you don’t want to sync the video back to iPhone, set iTunes to not sync the video. See Sync with iTunes.
iPhone User Guide
You can also download your past purchases by following the steps below.
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Cheers,
Jason H.

CK-200 poor music playback quality

Hi, I've just installed the car kit CK-200 (ISO cable version) into my car and I'm very disappointed by the music playback quality.
I have Nokia C7 with the latest firmware (14.002) and I have also updated the car kit firmware into 3.0.
There's no problem with the phone call quality - I would say it is comparable to the other car kits (for example to CK-7W I've had before), but if I want to use it for playing music, it still plays it in "phone call-like" quality. I have tried different players, but no success - still the same low quality.
If I turn the FM transmitter on and tune up the car radio to the transmitters' frequency, I get much better quality then via this car kit (although sometimes it's noisy from other broadcasting radios).
In the product description of this CK-200 they highlight very good sound quality thanks to some DSP technology - I hope there's more than this.
Do you have any idea what might be the problem here?

Hi
The CK-200 is a mono output car kit that is only designed for calls, not music.
If a handset is playing music via the mono Bluetooth channel, this is a fluke, and not part of the design of the handset.
The CK-100, 300, 600 are all stereo car kits with music capability.
The DSP settings on the CK-200 manage the voice vs background noise in the car so the driver can be heard more clearly by the other caller.

Poor DVD Video Quality - Transcoding pain

Hello,
I am working on a video project with the NTSC DVD as the deliverable. The project is realtively simple. It contains one mpeg2 video file, an adio track and a few menues. It is all ok except for the horrible DVD quality I am getting from Encore SC4. The original mpeg2 video quality is very good. This mpeg2 video file was generated using the Proshow Producer program with NTSC DVD setting as output. Here is what mediainfo has to say about this file:
General
Complete name                            : C:\Local\Piotrek Local Documents on xps435\My Local Shows\2012\04 Pogrzeb Melanii Grobelnej\Pozegnanie Melanii Grobelnej_DVD.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 2.08 GiB
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 6 518 Kbps
Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP                    : No
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
Format settings, GOP                     : M=1, N=12
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 6 164 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.595
Stream size                              : 1.97 GiB (95%)
Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 224 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 73.4 MiB (3%)
My first problem is why Encore insists on transcoding the video. I do not see any reason why not to use the video as is. The "Do not transcode" option is not available. Perhaps I have some settings in the project that may be incompatible with the DVD video but I realy do not know what they could be. Please help if you think you know what it could be.
With automatic transcoding the resulting video quality is plain horrible. I keep blinking my eyes because everything is so badly out of focus. I keep trying to specify the transcoding quality to as high as Encore allows me but the resulting video stays at very poor quality. I am not very expierence with the transcoding function of Encore but what I am getting "out of the box" is garbage so I hope you, more expierenced gentlemen, could help me squeese more from this S/W.
Thanks you in advance,
Peter

In Proshow Producer there are two ways (two different menue options) to generated an mpeg2 DVD quality file. One of them gave me a file described by mediainfo in my original email - encore insisted on transcoding it.
The other way of generaring a DVD mpeg2 file renders a file as below:
General
Complete name                            : C:\Local\Piotrek Local Documents on xps435\My Local Shows\2012\04 Pogrzeb Melanii Grobelnej\amanda_customDVD_2.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 34.4 MiB
Duration                                 : 30s 63ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 9 585 Kbps
Writing library                          : Photodex mpeg encoder
Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=18
Duration                                 : 30s 63ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 9 200 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.888
Stream size                              : 32.9 MiB (96%)
Writing library                          : Photodex mpeg encoder
Color primaries                          : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.601
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.601
Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 30s 24ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 224 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -33ms
Stream size                              : 821 KiB (2%)
The problem is that Proshow Producer crashes (runs out of memory) while generating this file - this is why it is only 30 seconds long. Now this file does not require transcoding in Encore CS4 and, if it did not crash, would be of acceptable quality.
I do not know what the M/N settings describe but the M/N settings are different in the second file. Some other settings are different as well, e.g., Bit/(Pixel*Frame).
From what I know and from what Photodex support person told me they do not have a way to generate an .m2v file. I can generate an mpeg2 with no audio from Producer but the video encoding would be as it is now I would think so I am not sure what difference (if any) this would make.
Thanks,
Peter

Multiple Music Videos Grouped Together Under "Unkown Album"

I recently upgraded to iTunes 8.0.1 (this bug might have existed in 8.0.0 but I only noticed it now).
Some of the music videos I have purchased off the iTunes Store are now grouped together under Unknown Album. This only happened for some of the videos I have purchased. There is nothing written under the albums line when I click get info. It only says Unknown Album in grid view, but they are under the same album artwork in Cover Flow.
Here is a screen shot of how it looks in grid view. The "album" with multiple videos is on the left, next to two music videos displayed properly:
Here is what it looks like in cover flow:
The next two are the setting under get info.
Thank You To Anyone Who Can Help!

It isn't a perfect world. Make something up that is meaningful to you to help keep things neat if that is what you are looking for.
I let iTunes do the work and have the 'keep' and 'copy' features enabled in iTunes prefs>Advanced. To keep my stuff simple I have created my own compilation albums and label them as compilations. 80's, 90's etc. as there are to many one-hit-wonders to let them loose all over the place. So by creating compilations I keep things together.
You could apply the same idea to the videos. Call the Album 'My Music Video's' and label them all with that and select the compilation option and they will all be in one place.
MJ

Music Video Quality

Are there any plans to upgrade the Music Video library that Apple offers in the Itunes store?
There are no other places to purchase music videos online except Apple and the quality on offer isn't great considering we have the technology for 720p and above.
I would love to purchase many music videos from Apple but I am waiting for the day when the quality is upgraded.
Will this day be soon? is there any timescale?
I think its worth also saying that many customers feel this way, the reviews on music video items say it all.

You have to remember that many of these music videos were made before the advent of hd and higher quality video. NTSC brodcast video is usually about 335 res which is horrible compared to hd. A lot of the video were made especially older ones for that standard.

Is the music-video quality worth $1.99?

This is my time line: I downloaded the iPod commercial (w/ U2 in it). I bought music videos.
I have to confess that the video and sound quality for music videos are way too low for $1.99. I expected the quality JUST AS IN THE AD but it is only a very small fraction of it. The commercial might be misleading. It is good but it does not reflect the reality of the product. Gotta check on that.
I understand that there might be limitations with the iPod. That's acceptable but what if I want to watch these videos in the computer? Shouldn't the software down-sample the videos for the iPod while maintaining a full-quality copy for desktop viewing?
You can legally download most of the music videos at the same size for free from well known sources (that are even related to Apple). Yes, some of the have lower video and sound quality BUT these are neither intended for HD TV viewing?
My two dollars: Make them larger and better and make iTunes install a reduced video for the iPod. Otherwise is only worth like $0.49.

I too am very disappointed by video quality especially for the price. If it had said it was 320x240 on iTunes Music Store I wouldn't even have thought about buying it. They are definitely misleading most people to think it's full quality. I know it needs to be 320x240 for an iPod but I'm down loading it to my computer and would expect at least 640x480 come on!! You should have to compress it for the iPod the same as you would with CD's. That's why I don't buy music from iTunes Music Store because the quality is too low for my standards. Now it's the same reason I won't buy videos either. Well thanks for letting me get that off my chest. Wish I had found these posts prior to buying my first and last item from iTunes, a Jane's Addiction "Ocean Size" music video... : (

T530 poor hd video quality

i have just bought a new lenovo T530. it's graphics were supposed to be good but when i try to play a hd video, the quality is rather poor. what would the cause be? my video driver is Intel HD Graphics 4000.

Hi Sebyd,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that you are having trouble playing HD videos in your Lenovo T530.
Please try updating your video drivers to the latest version from Lenovo Support page. To download the drivers, Please click on "Select Product", then in "QUICK PATH" enter T530 and select the exact model depending on the MTM number of your device.
If you are trying to play videos from internet, try reinstalling adobe flash player and Disable "hardware acceleration" in video flash options.
Make sure that your power plan in Power manager is set to maximum performance.
Please try using any other players if you are trying to play videos from a Local media and see if it helps.
Hope this can help to resolve your concern!
Best regards,
Mithun.
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Poor iTunes video quality

Hi,
I just purchased an episode of Lost through iTunes because I missed the original airing on TV. When I try to play back the video on my iMac, the quality is garbage. The video is jerky, stops, and when it does run, it runs at about 10 frames per second.
It does this while in full screen mode, and also when running in windowed-mode.
There are no other applications running in the background, not even Dashboard is loaded up. I've tried repairing permissions and re-starting the computer. iTunes videos play back fine on my Mac Mini, but for the purpose of this Lost video, it needs to play back on the iMac.
I downloaded the 7.0.2 iTunes update (it was on 7.0.1), hoping it would eliminate this issue, but if anything it's worse since the update.
Any suggestions to make the video play back smooth? This computer has plenty of free hard drive space, and a gig of RAM. It's annoying that this computer cost what it did new, and now four years later can't play back a Quicktime video that I paid $1.99 for.
Thanks,
A
600 MHZ iBook, iMac 800MHz, 1.42 GHz Mac Mini,1 GB RAM in both Mini and iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8) Aiport Extreme, and express. iPod2G, Nano, and shuflle.iSight. Mac LC580.

Macmenno,
Thanks for the reply.
To be honest I didn't really look at the requirements for iTunes, I just assumed it would work haha. Thanks for pointing that out. I wouldn't think 200 MHz difference would cause it to run this poorly, but oh well.
A

Poor music video quality, example new Beyoncé album

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