Previous movies on itunes not playing

I got an ipod classic recently and i'm trying to load it with everyting I previously had in itunes and it's telling me that the movies (home made vids) aren't supported by the current version of quick time on itunes.

Sid Starr wrote:
And don't come on here justifying Apple's stance on this.
Well, movies play from my iPad and my iPod via both the HDMI cable and Apple TV just fine and I was going to ask for details regarding your difficulties. However...

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I have rented a movie from iTunes in my iPad, and it is not playing. When I press on the movie title from the iPod > purchsed section, it gives me a black/blank screen for a second or two and then takes me back to the main desk-top screen. Is there another program or step that I am missing?

Absolutely correct! Wasn't even thinking about that. LOL
Chris CA wrote:
When I press on the movie title from the iPod > purchsed section
You view rentals in Videos > Movies, not the iPod app.

HT1657 rental movie on iTunes not playing

I just rented a movie and it wont play...suggestions? I have all the updates done. I tried restarting my computer and nothing...

I'd report the problem to the iTunes Store.
Log in to the Store. Click on "Account" in your Quick Links. When you're in your Account information screen, go down to Purchase History and click "See all".
Find the item that is not playing properly. If you can't see "Report a Problem" next to the item, click the "Report a problem" button. Now click the "Report a Problem" link next to the item.

New Home Movies from iTunes not showing up on Apple TV

I edit a lot of home movies in Final Cut. When I am done I use "Compressor" to convert the uncompressed movie files to an Apple TV format. The problem I am having now is that after I import them into iTunes they aren't showing up on either of my two Apple TVs when i use Home Sharing on my local network. I am able to play the movies in iTune and play them on my Apple TV by using AirPlay, but I would prefer not having to do this.
A few things to note:
1. Software is up to date on Apple TV
2. I have "Share my library on my local network" checked and "Share my entire library" selected under SHARING in my iTunes preferences
3. I am using Compressor 4.07. The preset option I use is " 1080 for Apple Devices (10Mbps)- Compatible with Apple TV (3rd gen.) and iPad (3rd Gen.)
Name: 1080p for Apple Devices (10 Mbps)
Description: Compatible with Apple TV (3rd gen.) and iPad (3rd gen.)
File Extension: m4v
Estimated size: 4.5 GB/hour of source
Device: Apple TV 3rd Generation
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    Width and Height: Automatic
    Pixel aspect ratio: Default
    Crop: None
    Padding: None
    Frame rate: (100% of source)
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    Pixel depth: 24
    Spatial quality: 50
    Min. Spatial quality: 50
    Temporal quality: 50
    Min. temporal quality: 50
    Average data rate: 10 (Mbps)
    Maximum data rate: 14 (Mbps)
Audio Encoder
    Sample Rate: 44.100kHz
    Channels: 2
    Bits Per Sample: 16
    AAC encoder quality: high
    Data rate: 128 Kbps
Include Dolby 5.1 Audio track
Compatible with Mac, PC, Apple TV (3rd gen.), iPad (3rd gen.) and iPhone 5, iPod touch (5th gen.)

Are the files in the library?
I notice that music and movie categories exist, and I can watch the movies I have converted using handbrake, and iMovie for home movies that we're added to my iTunes library....but... I want to sort this into kid movies, parent movies, and home video categories. Apple TV will be so much more useful if I don't have to use my iPad to air play my home movies. Browsing a single list of video that includes these 3 distinct functional categories is pretty lame.   Where is my apple freedom here?
I expect this fixed or more easily configured with the new Yosemite and iOS update. I hope there is an Apple TV update to make this better too.

Using Lion, recent Movies with .mov extension will not play in Quicktime, but earlier ones taken with same camera (Kodak M530) will play fine.

Using Lion, recent Movies with .mov extension will not play in Quicktime, but earlier ones taken with same camera (Kodak M530) will play fine. I have got VLC which runs them fine but cannot get movies saved in iPhoto to play in VLC...and of course its a real bugger to copy moves from iPhoto to another folder; in fact if anyone can tell me how to do that I will accept defeat!

Hello Shad:
Have you downloaded and installed Flip4Mac?
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windowsmedia
Barry

Quick time movies (.mov) files will not play in Iphoto 11.

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You're welcome.
Well believe it or not, that's exactly what the exclamation point means. Search the forum. I've been doing this a while.
Next, I have no interest, commercial or otherwise in Library Manager, I have no shares in the company that makes it. I didn't make it. It's not my software. You could give those guys a million dollars and I'll get nothing from it. I and other expereinced users have recommended it thousands of times on this forum for this problem. Amazing how often it works. Of course, a quick search would have told you that already.
Another: Believe it or not you can use the Rebuild Function of Library Manager for free. You don't need to purchase it for that purpose.
Y'all have a nice paranoid day now.
Regards
TD

Bought a movie via iTunes, tried playing it and was told that it "requires Quicktime, which this version doesn't support"

Bought a movie via iTunes, tried playing it and was told that it "requires Quicktime, which this version doesn't support". Any suggestions? Also why does iTunes sell a movie which you then cant watch!!!

Try restarting your iTunes in 32-bit mode, as per the following document:
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ITunes not playing videos or movies

iTunes isnt playing video's or movies, but is playing the music of them. I need help! I just purchased music video's and they are not playing, only the sound is.

This problem cropped up for me yesterday. I had just copied a new video to my iTunes library and was testing that it worked properly, but while the sound was playing, the screen was black.
Pausing/pressing the Play button resolves the issue, until I select a new video/movie to play, when I have to do it again.
I'm running MacOS X 10.6.6 and iTunes 10.1.1 (4). I tried reinstalling iTunes, with no luck. I also tried the old mainstay of replacing the Preferences file, but that also didn't help.
There is ONE new wrinkle to this situation. Yesterday, I had installed a new app named AirView to stream videos over AirPlay to my iPad. This works fine, but after this, the issue cropped up, suggesting an AirPlay issue.
I have two iMacs, so decided to try this situation on the Kitchen iMac and played a video on this other iMac just fine, video and sound. I then started up AirView on the iPad and initiated the video stream to the iPad from the Kitchen iMac. The movie played fine on the iPad. I quit AirView and went back to try the video on the Kitchen iMac, and yes, the video now failed to display until I reselected Computer from the AirPlay menu at the bottom of the screen, or used the pause/play solution, even though Computer was still selected as the default in the AirPlay menu. Doing this once seemed to be enough to resolve the issue for playing all videos on the Kitchen iMac, but not on the Office iMac.
The only other difference between iTunes on these two iMacs is that one (the Office iMac) is running its videos from a FireWire 800 attached 2TB hard drive, while the Kitchen iMac's contents are on the internal hard drive.
Deselecting the AirPlay option in Preferences/Devices to start videos correctly on the Office iMac is not a solution, since this iMac serves as our home server for our Apple TV.
Since I have a practical option, however, and since this issue doesn't affect playing videos remotely using AirPlay, this is now a buggy annoyance, but no longer a problem for me.

ITunes movie purchases will not play on external display - HDCP auth error

Hello,
Well, I'm surprised there hasn't been more of a storm over this one already but I expect there will be.
Just got a new MacBook last week and finally found a mini Display Port -> VGA adapter so i could use my 19" external display. I rented a movie from the iTunes store yesterday and when I tried to play it on my external display, it gave me a warning/error that the display was 'not an authorized HDCP display' and it would not play. Plays fine on the small MacBook screen, just nothing external. To make it even worse, i tried all the movies that I have purchased from the iTunes store with the same result... NONE of them will play on anything but the MacBook's small 13" screen. This is crazy unacceptable.
Has anyone else run into this yet or have any ideas of something I may be overlooking in order to get purchased movies to play on an external display?
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Hm, how many Apple users did I see scorning Vista and its content protection madness; agreeing with Peter Gutmann's searing critique of Vista[1].
And here we are now with Apple users who have spent thousands of dollars on Apple hardware (30" Cinema displays are not cheap!), buying films legitimately through Apple's store only to find themselves screwed when they just want to watch the film!!!
The deeper questions we should be asking is if Apple have done anything to enable end-to-end encryption. Vista made significant sacrifices to efficiency and stability to get there, what has Apple done to our OS? We have no technical details on this yet, but wouldn't Apple be improperly implementing HDCP (in spirit if not letter) if it didn't force end-to-end encryption from source to final destination, most of which has to go through your system?
[1] http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

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Hello,
I recently replaced my hard drive and restored my computer with a time machine back up. However, I have changed the preferences in Itunes so that the Itunes Media folder is still on the old drive (which still has OSX 10.6.3, connected as an external drive).
My Problem is Movie, TV Shows, and Video Podcasts are not playing in itunes. This includes videos I try to import and videos already in the itunes media folder.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

First, back up all data and then uninstall "DivX" according to the developer's instructions.
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Itunes not playing

to all,
today, itunes wont play any of my music in the library. i have checked all the soundcard propertis, but when i click on a file to play it, the bar at the top saying how much has played and how much is left etc, doesn't move. i have had the problem in the past but has usually been solved with a restart, which i have done several times today to no avail. can anyone suggest anything?
thanks
Jack

I am having the same problem. Nothing will play, the little bar doesn't move. Nothing, not the songs purchased from itunes, not songs I've imported from cd, nada.
I tried upgrading the quicktime, that didn't help. This morning I was happily listening to my music on my previous version of Itunes, and then I had to stupidly download the newest version.
I have spent the last 4 hours trying to navigate the online support, at this point I really want to speak to a live person.
Does apple have live people anymore?

Movies in Itunes not showing up on Apple TV

I am finding that some movies which I have added to Itunes and play fine on my Mac, do not appear on my Apple TV. They are mpeg4 with the H.264 codec, which is what all my videos are. I have tried rebooting the ATV and also restarting Itunes on my Mac, but still the same thing. I have a category which contains 7 items, but only 5 of them appear on the ATV. It's driving me a bit crazy! Hope someone has an idea about what to do.
Thanks!

RogerOut makes some good points and this feels to me like a ham fisted attempt by Apple to take control of my media in a way that I don't want. The stuff it is choosing to call "home movie" is 100% legit movies, but not ones I bought through the itunes store. So I load a movie and then it mysteriously does not show up in my Apple TV because it has defaulted to "home movie".
What I still fail to understand is what the heck is the purpose of this apart from annoying users who's stuff now does not appear on ATV without explanation or warning. So glad to have this forum to help me, but why should I have to do this to figure out how to overcome a stupid thing that Itunes is doing to my movie (it is a movie!)?
As I say though, what possible benefit is it for a users media to be labelled in this way and anyway, why does calling it a home movie make it unreadable in ATV?

All of the sudden iTunes not playing (sometimes)

Out of the blue I have found the oddest behavior from iTunes.
Songs just do not play.
All button work, everything seems in order, but when I press the play button the playhead does not move. I can scrub into the song, but when I release it does not play. It is as if it is in pause, but it is not?
I restart fixes the issue.
I have never had any problems with iTunes, before I start re-installing or trashing the prefs and .plist I was hoping for some feedback.
If I open an audio file in any other program it plays just fine.
No other odd behavior that I have seen
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my scan ewido is 1/4 done and it afound 6 probs
let 's hoep that it !
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All songs in itunes not playing

A few real bad problems here!
1. I am running Itunes 12.0.1.26 on a PC with Windows 8.1 it's a Dell.
*after almost a year of trouble recovering all of my playlists that had gone missing due to an itunes error I was happy to find myself two days ago with itunes operational...all of my 10s of 1,000s of songs listed properly and all of my playlists appearing fine. Every song was there...itunes knew the location of each song.
BUT, now whenever I click on ANY song, itunes doesn't play it(I neither hear it nor does it appear in the top bar with the timeline moving)...this goes for ALL SONGS IN ITUNES - purchased from itunes, imported into itunes, other formats, same problem in all cases.
What I can tell you: The computer is authorized, this is not just an audio problem(system sounds is fine, headphones are fine, other programs sound is ok).
the only other thing I can say is that in recent months I get this error every single time I open ITUNES:
itunes has detected a problem with your audio configuration -
I click out of it and everything works fine, for months. I looked up how to resolve that error message appearing here and deleted quicktime and reinstalled. That is the only other recent change I have made here?
I would really , really appreciate any help on this! So frustrated with the volume of itunes errors...if this doesn't work I am going to take a week off from work and move my library to Google play or other! Thanks, PJ

Hi pjholt,
I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues with iTunes; I know how frustrating that can be, especially if it was working fine just a short while ago. If none of your music is playing in iTunes, but you are not getting an error about iTunes being unable to locate the files, you may have an audio configuration issue (which would also support the error message you had been seeing). If that is the case, you may find the information and troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
iTunes and QuickTime for Windows: Audio does not play or plays incorrectly - Apple Support
Regards,
- Brenden

Partial solution for iTunes not playing songs or playing partial songs

Like a lot of other people, my iTunes (latest version 6.0.3.5 as well as previous versions), would refuse to play certain songs, or, would play only the first X seconds of a song.
I had been thinking all along that the song was encoded correctly and now iTunes would not play it.
Well it turns out that the iPod will not play it either, meaning that PLAYBACK was not the issue, but ENCODING.
I have another computer on our home network...I encoded a CD with that computer (same version of iTunes), then transfered the files to the "broken" computer...with the newly encoded files from the other computer, the "broken" computer plays the songs perfectly.
So anyway, the problem is with ENCODING, not PLAYBACK.
Now I have to go back and re-encode about 30 CD's...the number of CD's I've encoded on the broken computer since the no-playback/partial-palyback issue first surfaced.
We all still have a big problem here in figuring how to get the broken computers to encode correctly.
Hope this helps.

You might check and see what codecs are installed on your PC...
Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Hardware tab
Audio Codecs > Properties
here is something similar
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1886581?

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