Search option eliminated in iOS7 video shared library?

Towards the end of iOS6 they added a search bar to the Shared Video tab. If you have a home media server and click on your libarary from your phone a search bar appeared at the top of the window allowing you to search within folders of your shared library. This now seems gone again with iOS7. Is it still gone or does it exisit and I'm not seeing it?

Just to inform you it still streams on AppleTV and MACs as well.

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I am using IPAD Mini.When I am searching for any particular song or album from my shared ITUNES folder, the search is conducted in the apple store and not on the shared library. How to search for the song in the shared library

Search for shared library is impossible, as far as I know. Searches supported - are local and internet.

How to make the symbol to be resolved within the shared library ?

I have two definitions of a symbol, one is in the main code, the other in a shared library. I want the symbol to be resolved within the shared library if it needed in the shared library.
From the 'C++ User�s Guide', use the option '-Bsymbolic' to build the shared library is a choice. But it also said 'Never use -Bsymbolic with programs containing C++ code, use linker map files instead. So I have to try to use the map file, but I did not get more useful information from 'Linker and Libraries Guide'.
I want to know what should be included in the map file and how to generate the map file?
Additionally, from the 'Linker and Libraries Guide', the 'Direct Binding' also could resolve this problem. And I tried to build the shared library by the '-B direct' option, it works.
Could anybody tell me what's the difference between the '-Bsymbolic' and '-B direct'?
Any comments are appreciated.

You didn't provide fun.h, and you didn't show all the commands that you must have used -- there are no commands that compile the source code into .o files. So I can't tell why the -xldscope option didn't work for you.
Problems and errors that I see in your example:
Functions func and swap are referenced from C code, but swap and one of the func functions are compiled by the C++ compiler and will get mangled names. If you compile a function with the C++ compiler that is to be called from C code, you need to declare the function as extern "C". But the extern "C" in a shared header needs to be guarded by +#ifdef __cplusplus+, since a C compiler won't understand the declaration.
When you build a shared library, you must explicitly list the libraries it depends on, since no dependencies are created by default. For a C++ library, you need at least -lCrun -lc in that order. Otherwise, in a real-world program you can have program failures due to incorrect library initialization order. To be sure you have listed all needed libraries, use the -zdefs option, which causes the linker to complain about missing definitions.
To be sure the shared library is picked up at run time, provide a RUNPATH via the -R option when you build the executable.
The -xldscope option must appear on compile commands for the files where you want it to take effect. It has no effect on a link command, because the option affects how code is generated.
Here is my rewrite:
% cat fun.h
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
#endif
void func();
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
#endif
void swap();
% cat fun.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include "fun.h"
extern "C" void func()
    printf("func in the shared lib\n");
extern "C" void swap()
    func();
% cat fun_in.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include "fun.h"
void func()
    printf("func in the main code\n");
% cat main.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include "fun.h"
int main()
    func();
    printf("invoke the swap:\n");
    swap();
% CC -G -xldscope=symbolic fun.c -Kpic -o liboutside.so -lCrun -lc -zdefs
% cc -o run main.c fun_in.c -L. -loutside -R .
% ./run
func in the main code
invoke the swap:
func in the shared libAs you can see, it works as advertised.
Please note that the -xldscope option affects all functions in the module. If you need more fine-grained control, you must add declarations to the source code, or use a mapfile instead of -xldscope .

Don't have the option search shared library

Dear All,
I just install a NAS on my private network but can't see the shared files.
I try on a friend network, it's fine.
I've seen that "Search Shared Library" should be on but I've not this option on my Edition / Preference / Shared page....
I'm using a iTunes V10.5.2.11 French.
Thank you

You update as always, open itunes, connect ipod.
iOS: How to update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Read the entire article not just the first half.

Itunes in windows fails to play Shared Library's Video!!!

Hello, I'm not sure if this is a bug but I have thoroughly tested it in both Vista and XP.
If I share my Itunes' Library and access it from another PC (vista or XP tested), it can list the tvshows/movies/podcasts just fine, but when I play it, nothing happens. I see some network activity for brief 3-4 seconsd and then it stops.
The videos were imported into itunes on the macbook pro just fine (meaning the encoding is fine, MP4) and when I copied those videos file manually over to the PCs, the play fine too. Even if I share them over the network through SMB, they play fine streaming. They only fail when I play them through itunes' shared library.
95% of the videos fail, except for a few that I noticed and have not yet figured out a pattern. Videos that seems to work are 1) the downloaded guided tour video of iLife08 2) the mac tips podcasts from apple 3) a movie I converted using Quicktime into MP4 from divx
Any ideas?
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This may indeed be the Windows version of iTunes (and QuickTime) being fussier than the Mac version.
However I did in Windows XP, take a video that would not work, export it using QuickTime Pro (on Windows) with the Prepare for Streaming option ticked, and the resulting video did then work, also taking the same original video that did not work and in iTunes 7.4.3 (on Windows) and converting it to AppleTV format, also produced a version that then did work for iTunes Sharing.
A video can be in MPEG4 format (or H.264) and meet the Apple specifications for iPod or Apple TV resolution, but it is quite possible it may not have been 'prepared for streaming'.
There have been similar reports from FrontRow (in Mac OS X) users accessing videos from an iTunes Share and having problems (typically very poor performance) and when they used the prepare for streaming option the problems went away.

Apple's Videos App on iPad won't load my shared library

Hi,
I've been looking for an answer to this problem for ages!
Symptoms/context:
You have all your movies onto one big drive
You have uncheck Preferences|Advanced|"Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library"
(this way all titles will be linked to your big drive, not copied)
You have drag/drop those movies from your big drive in Finder into your iTunes Movies library
You have enabled Home Sharing (File|Home Sharing|Turn On Home Sharing)
You have disabled the old way of sharing (Preferences|Sharing tab|Uncheck "Share my library on my local network")
You have proudly added a very nice artwork for each of your movie so that you'll get nice thumbnails in iTunes
by using Identify.app
or by looking on the web for the best artwork (i.e. flickfacts.com), saving it locally, then drag/drop on your movie in iTunes (Get Info|Artwork)
You're using Apple's Videos app to load your shared library on you iPad
(Start Videos app,select your Shared library,wait a while,then all your thumbnails are displayed fine)
Then as the days go by, you realize that loading your library is taking more and more time, up until that day when all **** brakes loose and you get stuck at the small round clock progress bar, and you wait and wait but no thumbnails is coming up anymore. You reset everything to no avail. What happened?!!
Well here's what I had to do to fix that problem:
Everything is about movie thumbnails!
In my case I had an overhead of 0.5GB of thumbnails for 650 movies! That's an overhead alright! By overhead I mean that the sum of all my thumbnails was 500MB, so the Videos app had to load this (maybe not entirely at once but...) every time you start the app and select your shared library. This explain why the app get slower and slower has you add new movies, thus new thumbnails/artworks.
But this doesn't really explain why ultimately the Videos app stops loading all of a sudden!
I realize the iTunes doesn't like:
Movie that doesn't show the correct icon preview in Finder
Invalid movie formats - I'll explain later
Big thumbnails
Read all 3 steps and don't forget the last paragraph at the end.
Movies that doesn't show the correct icon preview in Finder
Ultimately, I think that was the main problem of all my 3 steps
In Finder, enable the Icon Preview:
View|Show View Options|Check "Show Icon Preview"
You should now be able to see you thumbnails like this in Finder:
VALID:
INVALID:
But if you see any of these icons, the Videos app on the iPad might stumble a bit when loading the library
or
If that's the case for some of your movies, you'll have to make sure that ALL your movies have a proper thumbnail.This can be achieve:
by using Identify.app - see (note1)
or by looking on the web for the best artwork (i.e. flickfacts.com), saving it locally, then drag/drop on your movie in iTunes (Get Info|Artwork)
Once the thumbnail is corrected, it should display fine in Finder and iTunes
Invalid movie formats
There might be some cases where even after correcting the thumbnail in step 1., this icon still remains invalid.
If that's the case, you'll need to:
Either delete the movie altogether and rip it again
or reconvert it. For example with iSkySoft iMedia Converter Deluxe has a "Speed conversion" option that allows you to reconvert a 2.5GB movie in about 5 min. After the re-conversion I just had to do step 1. and all was fine, and the thumbnail would show well in Finder/iTunes.
Big thumbnails - may be optional
To speed up the loading of the movie library you have to reduce the size of the artwork that you insert into each of your movie's metadata:
Get the artwork on the web (i.e. flickfacts.com) and preferably a .jpg format,and save it locally
Open your movie file with Preview (Apple's preview app)
Tools | Adjust Size
Fit into: 640x480 pixels + OK
Save As (press Option before Saving) and save it in another folder (I called my folder "Reduced to 640x480")
Note: if you want to do this on a bunch of files at once: select all your files in Finder, right click and select Open. All you .jpgs will be opened in Preview. Then Ctrl-A to select all in Preview, then you can resize them all)
You'll noticed that a 1.5MB artwork can easily reduced as small as 50K-200K.
For example, I went from 500MB to 72MB for all my artworks. Much smallest overhead wouldn't you say?!
Now comes the part you'll all love : you need to remove ALL your old big artworks for ALL your iTunes movies:
in iTunes | Movies
Right click on a movie|Get Info|Artwork tab|Select the artwork|Delete
Drag/drop your newly reduced .jpg to that same window
Click OK to save.
You can't do that in batch, you have to do each manually like this (if anyone has a better idea, I'm all ears)
See (note1)
(note1) Important: If you use a program like Identify.app to retrieve the metadata/artwork, I'm pretty sure the size of the automatically retrieved artwork is quite big by default (around 1.5MB-2MB) so you might wanna be careful here and use it to retrieve the movie's metadata, but after that do step 3. to replace the artwork with a smaller one.
VERY IMPORTANT
Once step 1, 2 are completed (and I had already completed the optional step 3) you have to remove all movies from iTunes (see note, next sentence ) and drag/drop them all back from your drive to your iTunes Movies window. BEFORE REMOVING ALL MOVIES FROM iTUNES, make sure that the option (Preferences|Advanced|"Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library") was uncheck. If it was checked, I'm pretty sure it will delete all your movies on disk, not only in iTunes!!! - you'll have to investigate this yourselves or make sure you have a good backup copy of your movies first.
Since I've done all this, my iPad's Videos app is taking about 10-20 sec to load my over than 600 movies library
Pfew!!
Have fun gang,
Jean

This worked for me... A little time consuming but once you get rolling it goes GREAT... Thanks....
I got my artwork and saved it to my Desktop
Opened up Microsoft Paint and clicked on "File" and "Open" and found it to get it on the screen to resize it
Clicked "resize" and a box for changing it opened up
Checked the box "Pixels" and "Unchecked maintain aspect ratio"
Set Horizontal for 640 and Vertical for 480
Clicked on "OK" and went back to "File" and did a "Save As" and chose JPEG Picture
It came up "File Already Existed" and clicked "OK" (really did not care about the original artwork I found because wrong size)
Went to iTunes and on the movie right clicked on "Get Info", clicked on "Details", then "Artwork"
Go to the little box on the top left that shows your old artwork and click on it to get the little blue border to appear around it and hit "Delete" to make it gone
Click on "Add Artwork" and find it where you put the one from above on your Desktop and hit "Open" and OK and your new artwork is now there and all good.
Sounds like a lot of steps to follow but after around 5 or so you will fly through it. This worked perfect on my iPhone 6 Plus and I have artwork on my Home Videos now.

Video Streaming from shared library in Windows

I wonder if someone can confirm my findings, I know a lot of people have been asking about this.
I use Nero7 to convert DVDs to H264 so that I can play them on my AppleTV. This I then load into iTunes on a server in a shared library.
When I do this I can view the movie on my AppleTV and also any MAC that is running iTunes. I cant get them to play on Windows (it starts downloading but then just stops without doing anything).
I then had a thought and used the covert for iPOD option in iTunes (dont ask me why ...) this has the effect of changing the Bit Rate from 64 kbps to 127kbps.
Hey presto the video now streams in Windows (still got to check it still streams on AppleTV and MACs).
I'm I going MAD or what?
Malcolm

Just to inform you it still streams on AppleTV and MACs as well.

IPad mini losses playback controls/capabilities using shared library content videos

While accessing my shared "authorized" video library on my MacBook Pro, using the latest iTunes version (as of this submission), with my sparkling new iPad mini, the playback controls simply disappear usually after a few minutes, i.e. no progress bar, buttons for stop/start/pause/"done".
The video stream from the shared library cannot be stopped without the on-screen controls so we either attempt to turn off the unit (pressing the top on/off button) or (usually) press the home button after which the video stream/app stops then return to the expected ipad screen but the residual sound stream will continue to run indefinitely.
Most of the time, we hit the home button to end the video playback then wait for the sound stream portion to end which on average takes up to 1-5 minutes to stop completely.
This is repeatable too.
SUMMARY:
1). Without power cycling, we can play a video from the shared librar
2). then wait long enough for the video controls to "go missing" or again go unresponsive
3.) then press the home button which returns you to your normal iPad screen
4.) but the sound stream portion will take a while to take its course before ending.
Also, we gave power-cycling between issues but the each and every time, the shared library video playback inevitably ended up with same results.
iPad mini with iOS 6.1.3 factory , wifi only unit with legitimate software, etc. I.e. no jailbreak nonsense.
Any suggestions? Or is this a glitch/bug which needs addressing? Or a simple setting on the unit?
Thanks in advance!!!

I have nearly the same problem, but with an iPad 3rd generation. The symptoms are exactly the same, just a different device.
You documented the problem well, I can only add that resetting and reloading did not solve the problem for me.

BUG in iOS7: Post iOS7 upgrade, search option does not work for "Messages". If you want to search a contact name in Messages who is way below the list, the search will not yield any result.

BUG in iOS7: Post iOS7 upgrade, search option does not work for "Messages". If you want to search a contact name in Messages who is way below the list, the search will not yield any result.

These are user forums. You are not speaking to Apple here. Report your problem at Apple Feedback.

ITunes 11.x crashes when I try to watch video on network shared library

I upgraded to 11.1.32 today in hopes that it would fix my issue, but no dice.
I run a win8 laptop and iTunes 11.1.2.32. I am accessing a shared library on a NetGear Stora NAS device. Music works fine, but when I try to view one of my videos the iTunes app crashes. I have not had issues until 11.x. Thoughts?

Thank you so so much! I would have never thought to move apps around on my iPad (truth be told the newsstand app is the most useless for me, I wish I could just delete it) and was super happy that iOS 7 allows you finally put that sucker in a file along with the rest of the junk apps I never use.
Solved he issue! I can upload videos to my vlc for iOS player once again!

Retaining View Options in Shared Library

FYI: i'm running Mac OS 10.7.3 & iTunes 10.5.3
i have my library on a Mac Mini in the house. i use my MacBookPro for everything. My library is too large to keep on my laptop, so when i'm home, i just pop open iTunes and select the Mac Mini's library in the SHARED section to listen to tunes.
essentially two issues...
1) i hated that every time i created a new playlist, i had to re-select the View Options as i wanted them to be. this was just solved by using the Assimilate View Options script that i found during my investigations. it works fine for whatever i have on my local library (which isn't much), but it does not work for anything in the shared library.
1b) sidenote issue with that: when using it on the local library, it does great with choosing all the columns that i have setup. it does not, however, deal with the column widths & order nor which view mode i want (Album List + Always Show Artwork). argh.
2) so i continued my journey to finding the right app/plug/help/hack/whatever and ran across the Change Hidden iTunes Preferences script/app. this too works great for creating new playlists with the view options i want already in place (by checking the Changing view settings is global option). but this also only works on my local library and not the shared library views.
2b) sidenote with this one: this has the same issue as 1b above - exactly. arghx2.
NOTE: i realize i cannot actually change the view options on my shared libraries iTunes on the Mini - i just want the iTunes on my MBP to retain either the view options i want/set when using the shared library -or- have the view options that i actually have on the Mini's iTunes Library to display when viewing thru my MBP.
does that all make sense?
any thoughts would be appreciated.
THANKS.

This is by design. The artwork is not sent when browsing the shared library to avoid swamping the network. Sending the artwork for every track would generate a lot of network traffic.

Bugs in IOS7. My iPad3 doesn't connect to my shared library at home

I think this has to be a bug because with IOS7 my iPad doesn't connect to my shared library. It worked very well with IOS6.
I have also discovered that I have no keyboard when I look for a contact!. Is that also a bug?
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Best Regards.
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Try going to [Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings] Once that is done, connect to your wifi router.

Itunes Shared Library between Mac and Windows isn't sharing videos properly

Hi, I'm a bit new to the mac world, but I'm the proud owner of a new macmini. I also own a Windows 7 machine.
My problem is with the Itunes Shared library. Itunes 10 on my mac is set up to share everything, including podcasts. I can see these from Itunes 10 on Windows, and I can play music (and audio podcasts), but video is hit or miss.
Videos downloaded from Itunes U tend to work, lectures and stuff.
Video podcasts (also downloaded from Itunes Store) and other videos don't work at all. Itunes just doesn't play the video, and doesn't even launch the "black screen". The timer remains at 0.00.
On the other hand, sharing videos from the PC to Mac works well, i.e. my mac can see the contents of the itunes shared library on Windows and play videos. It just doesn't work the other way around.
Thanks for reading and I hope this problem can be fixed.

Woops!
Here you go:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10923818

Problem importing videos into file-shared library

There appears to be a bug in iPhoto for importing videos in the case where a library is opened via file sharing.
I've posted a bug report with Apple but it might help others to know about this. If I'm mistaken feel free to explain, that would be helpful too.
I have an iPhoto library on a Mac Mini server at home. I often open the iPhoto library on the mini via file sharing from my laptop to edit it.
I can drag and drop photos from my Sony DSC-H55 memory card plugged into my laptop onto iPhoto and they import fine into the file-shared library.
If I do the same with videos I get an error message that they are an unsupported file type.
If I copy the videos to the mini, and open iPhoto locally on the mini, they import fine.
In every other way, working with this iPhoto library via file sharing has been flawless, so this looks like a bug.

Interesting, thanks for the warning, Terence. I guess I assumed error correction would deal with that scenario, but I suppose there are insidious errors that could slip through and result in a mangled library. I do regular backups but still, I might lose that one special priceless photo!
It's easy enough to use screen sharing to operate iPhoto on the mini over wireless. I can transfer files first and then import that way. That would avoid this bug too.
Would you say this applies to other aspects of file sharing too? In other words, should we simply never edit a crucial file on a remote machine connected by wireless?
Where I work we often use SVN over wireless. I wonder if we could damage something while updating the repository.

Shared Library Video Files

I have several movies on my iMac and right now when someone in the household wants to watch one they have to use my video iPod and A/V cables to hook it up to the TV.
My brother has a Dell computer hooked up to his HD TV and I thought it would be easier for him to just access my shared library to watch the movies that way but only music file will play even though we can see the list of video files in my library.
Is this because iTunes only allows seeing what video files are there but you can't play them or is there something we aren't doing right?

Same issue being discussed here --> http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9222742#9222742
Here's what I'm experiencing (sounds like the same thing to me). Wish I had a solution to share, but maybe it helps knowing you're not alone.
Just another datapoint to add...I tried a few different things yesterday and I can get the following files to play:
1. Free Downloaded video from iTunes (Horton hears a Who - Anatomy of a Scene)
2. Digital Movie (Bolt) that requires some authorization from the iTunes store.
The movies that won't stream from one XP box to the other XP box are all encoded using Handbrake (they work fine going to the AppleTV though.) I'm wondering if it has something to do with DRM or specific tags/metadata that needs to be included in the encode.
Also, this is something new for me (i.e. I haven't tried sharing libraries or streaming from one iTunes instance to another prior to upgrading iTunes to 8.1) My daughter got a laptop and we wanted to keep all of our media in one shared location in the house. Hopefully this will work at some point.
Thanks,
Mike

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