Streaming and syncing

HAVE found a problem / have a question. I have synced my ATV with my macpro itunes. Some movies and TV shows are synced but as I have a lot of content, I need to stream the rest. Whenever I attempt to stream from the mac pro it tells me I have no content eg movies. So - is it true that you cant sync AND stream from the same itunes?? I did get a reply for Fletsch saying that streaming and syncing was possible (as I thought). BUT for some reason I dont get that option in my ATV menu. My existing content is invisible unless I sync it. Really annoying, as it also seems that if I set ATV to stream, it removes it as a synced option. Unless there is a box I havent checked or a setting I have missed. It is so much more complicated than the previous interface. Any ideas?

When an itunes library is set as the primary library (syncing) it will also stream any content you have in the library that isn't synced provided it is checked by its name in the appropriate library listing.
It sounds as though the tv can't see your library when set up as the primary library, is your itunes library sharing turned on in itunes prefs.

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Can I stream and sync from the same itunes library to one AppleTV?

Can I stream and sync from the same itunes library to one AppleTV?

From what I can tell this is a bug.
A very Frustrating bug. When the take 2 update launched I was streaming movies via "shared movies" from my synched computer without any issues. However after a couple of recent iTunes updates all the "shared" menus stopped appearing and I can no longer stream anything from my main computer.
When I open up my macbook though everything streams fine, all the "shared" menus immediately appear.
Numerous restarts, factory resets and reinstalling the 2.0 software have done nothing to help this issue.
If anyone has any more light on the subject it'd be great to hear. Also I'm not sure which update broke it because I went about a month not using the apple tv.

Stream AND Sync???

Hmmm... I can't stream and SEE my photos, but I can sync and still see my photos. But wait, 40gb is 460GB TOO SMALL for me, so if I sync, I am limited to what I can view as far as Movies, TVs, Podcasts, Music are concerned.
The dilemma... HOW can I BOTH STREAM (my movie etc content), AND SYNC (to see my photos) from the SAME iTunes database???
I called Apple, they were not at all helpful, and I had to wait while I listened to them look up on their computer, murmur and finally (after 15 min) decide they did NOT know if Stream+Sync is possible. Same problem after calling my local Apple store (!!!)
ANYWAY, I would be most grateful if this simple question was answered-- CAN APPLETV both STREAM (movies/TV/Music) AND SYNC (pictures) from the same iTunes library (on a single computer). If so, precisely HOW is that done?
Thanking you in advance. I will deliver the information to Apple Tech support to disseminate once I know how it is done!

ANYWAY, I would be most grateful if this simple question was answered-- CAN APPLETV both STREAM (movies/TV/Music) AND SYNC (pictures) from the same iTunes library (on a single computer).Yes.
If so, precisely HOW is that done?Turn off syncing for everything but your photos. Sync photos in whatever manner you plan to use. Once sync'd, use the "Sources" menu to select the TV (first option) to view photos. Use the "Named" iTunes Music option (usually the second option wher only one iTunes "host" computer is connected) to view all other "streaming" content. Simply switch back and forth as needed. Remember, iTunes must be running to access streaming content. (If not, the option will be grayed out.)
ADDED: Sorry, Robert. You beat me to the responence.

Strange slow streaming and syncing problem - any diagnostics?

I have two Apple TVs syncing wirelessly via an Airport Extreme with an iMac and one of the ATVs has begun behaving very strangely. I've rebooted my ATV, and even gone back to it's factory settings (2.1) and updated it to the latest firmware again without success. iTunes is version 8.1.1, but I had the same trouble with recent version of iTunes too. The problem ATV used to work fine with iTunes.
Syncing has been intermittent and iTunes frequently 'loses' my problem ATV2. Restarting iTunes will usually find it OK, but sometimes I have to go into my ATV2 settings and re-select the Airport Extreme and input my security password again before it's recognised by iTunes.
Even when iTunes does 'see' ATV2, the syncing has been extremely slow. The display of 'Top Movies' thumbnails has also been very sluggish. Playback of movie and podcast material from my iMac / iTunes library has also ground to a halt. For the most part I just stream from the iMac, and have most settings for ATV2 set to e.g. 'sync selected Movies'.
But even when I've selected items to sync with ATV2 the syncing is very slow. Today a 200 MB .m4v file took about 18 minutes to copy across to my ATV2. Once it had transferred across it played fine from the ATV2, with none of the stop/start problems I'd had when streaming from iTunes.
My Airport extreme is in the same room and about 12 feet from ATV2. My ATV1 is in a nearby but different room, and works fine, even though it's further away.
Is there any way I can diagnose the cause of this issue, or does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be? I presumed that a factory reset removed all settings on my ATV2 but is there a more extreme reset I could have done?
Thanks.

I can offer at least a partial reply to my own question.
I found lots of messages suggesting problems with the more recent firmware upgrade of Apple's Airport Extreme. So I downgraded from 7.4.1 to the older version 7.3.2 and afterwards my sluggish syncing and playback issues seemed to be resolved.
The file that took around 18 minutes to sync before now does it in about two minutes, and playback of files is normal. Don't know yet how well the older firmware will hold onto my ATV2 but I suspect all those issues were related and hope that will be fixed too.
If there are any downsides I'll update here.
Incidentally I forgot to mention that my ATV1 which had no problems with the Airport Extreme was an earlier model 1.x with updated firmware, whereas the problematic ATV2 had the later 2.x firmware, updated to 2.3.1. Both appear to be working fine now.

Recording beta question - seeking in recorded streams and syncing playback

hi lccs, some initial questions for you as i get started on the beta..
you say audio and video are saved in separate FLVs on the client server. does LCCS ensure that audio/video sync is maintained during playback?
how are the recorded streams delivered during playback? can you seek into these streams? e.g. if i have a recording of a video chat, can i use a timeline to seek forward and back through that video?
and finally - i will want to play back a recorded audio video chat between two users. will LCCS take care of synchronization between these four streams? (two video, two audio) or do i need to build a synchronized buffering strategy to achieve this?

To reiterate Raff's point - when you setup a ConnectSessionContainer with a
PlaybackAuthenticator (essentially, a "playback application"), that
ConnectSession does all the work of synchronizing streams for you. As Raff
says, you can build a timeline and seek within it - ConnectSession's
archiveManager exposes all aspects of the playback to you.
In fact, here's a basic seek bar you could try :
<s:HSlider width="800" maximum="{cSession.archiveManager.totalTime}"
value="{cSession.archiveManager.currentTime}" id="slider"
change="cSession.archiveManager.seek(slider.value)"/>
lastly, as Raff also says, you're not restricted to playing back the exact
application you recorded. If you had, say, audio/video chat plus text chat
recorded, and all you wanted for playback was the A/V, remove the text chat
from your playback application (and delete the chat FLV from the recording
zip, to save on bandwidth), and your playback app should just work. You can
also totally re-layout how your app looks for playback as compared to
"live", or allow your users to manipulate the layout or contents of what's
being played back as they watch the recording. We think this will allow for
some really interesting, innovative applications.
hope that helps,
nigel

Annoying little issue with streaming and syncing.

My Macbook is connected to two external hard drives which are hosts to all my movie and tv show files. These files make up my iTunes library so when I sync content the files are copied from my external HD's to my ATV. Some are copied and some I stream. I therefore have a massive library on the ATV selection under "My Movies" and "My TV Shows".
However, when I shutdown iTunes. All the content still shows up in the menus. Those that are synced can obviously be played but those that are not synced and played by streaming, still appear on the menu but obviously can't be played.
This is very annoying. I can't keep track of how many of the hundreds of movie files have been synced and which ones haven't. Before the latest update, the files that were not synced would disappear from the many once iTunes was shut down but now it appears they still remain there.
Any fix for this issue? And no, I don't want to tick "Show only synced items on my Apple TV" because then I can't stream anymore.
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Ian Parkinson wrote:
When I quit iTunes the streamed content disappears from the Apple TV lists and only the synced content is visible.
can confirm that this is also still the case for me, and i stream everything.

I currently have an iPhone 5, 16gb. I Do Not want to Loose any photos or albums by deleting them from my phone and not backing them up correctly. My iCloud backup is only storing my "Photo Stream" and I can not locate them in iTunes after I sync/Back up.

I currently have an iPhone 5, 16gb. My storage is almost full on my phone. There are only 80 mg available. I am new to icloud and also have always had trouble navigating around iTunes. (Even after endlessly reading through support and help topics as well as calling) My concern is about Not Losing any of my photos if I delete them from my phone. I have to delete a large portion of my camera roll as well as the Album Folders I have created. Although it would be great if there was a way to just keep my albums still. I have already backed them up to an external hard-drive, my computer and a geek stick. I'm not trying to be too paranoid about these photos, but, they are all of my 3 children. There are over 4000 pictures stored on my phone. Some photos go back as far as 2009. Can you offer any information about backing up my Camera Roll, not just "Photo Stream", and albums I've created On my phone? I read that it's good to back photos up on both iTunes as well as icloud. I even purchased extra icloud storage to back them all up. I do regularly back up/sync, my phone to my computers. However, I cannot even locate where they are stored on iTunes, let alone look at them. And as far as my iCloud backup, it only stores the new pictures from "Photo Stream". Please offer any advice you may have. I do not use up a lot of storage on my phone other than Photos and Contacts (it's a work phone). I would definitely be able to sleep better knowing my children can one day see these pictures of themselves. I appreciate your time. Thank you,

First of all, you should always save you photos on computer like any other digital camera.
Backup on iCloud or iTunes only backup your Camera Roll. The other photos should be already on the computer.
Note: Photos are not saved in iTunes, it's only a conduit between your iPhone and your photo managing software on computer.
What computer do you have?

Multiple AppleTV's- syncing and streaming and combining....

Multifold question... I have 11 APple TV's running at our ...etate. Don't aski- But it is actually a VERY cost effective way for guest rooms and other functions to have access to TV/Movies Music etc. What i do NOW is i have one machine on the netwrok as a straming server...i use it's itunes account to buy movies etc - and all other ATV's are conected to it's stream. Each of the ATV's howver have also had content purchased on DOWNLOADE on to THEM as well... and never been sync'd BACK to any other place. SO alot of uncentralized (and unprotected) content I have bought. So a FEW quyestions... 1) Does the central STREAMING "server" need to be "active? Meaning, Say I sign in to the machine, run iTunes as say "local" then use the "multiuser" feature to flip over to my other normal login, will the ATV's lose streaming... IF so , 2) would, say, a dedicated headless mac-mini suffice - logged in as a "Jukebox" dedicated user with iTunes running all the time... THEN 3) how can I get all the content BACK off each of the apple tv's safely? When I look to try to sync them it seems to want to wipe out everything and replace all the content on the AppleTV with what is on the iTunes I am syncing from!

Having done some back of a beer mat calculations, I would suggest the following:
Research has shown that you can sync almost an unlimited number of devices to one instance of iTunes. However, for purchased content, you can only use this content on 5 devices. From itunes Terms and conditions:
*(iii) You shall be authorized to use the Products on five Apple-authorized devices at any time, except in the case of Movie Rentals, as described below.*
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#SERVICE
This is a shame, in your case, as it means you'd have to run three mac minis as content servers for purchased content. However, I'm not sure how this would work in principle. You may be able to use 3 mac minis with the same itunes credentials, and sync your 11 appleTVs to these 3 minis. You may need to experiment here.
However, it would mean that content purchased on an appleTV would be shared with at least 4 other appleTVs. It also means that you could, say, every hour, invoke a sync of all appleTVs on your network, keeping the content in sync.
So, what about all of this content: You could use your existing server as a content store, that the mac minis point to. However, if you were using itunes to sync content rather than stream, you may need to go through a consolidation routine to pick up content stored on each different mac mini. This could be done using automator quite easily (I've just had a quick look, and it' possible to search for files cerated today, for example, and then import these into itunes).
It's not the most graceful of solutions. I'd speak to apple personally, and get them to clarify how many appleTV's can sync with one instance of itunes. There is a product ( http://www.paratsolutions.com/parasync.html ) that allows for multiple ipods on one itunes

I have so many pictures on my photo stream and camera roll. I synced them to my computer, the ones on my photo stream. can I delete the pictures in my camera roll? and still have the pictures on my computer? or do i have to save them from icloud folder to

Hi, i am an idiot when it comes to this. I have so many pictures on my photo stream and camera roll. i cant even take anymore pictures or even update to ios7. I synced my pictures to my PC, i think. can i know delete my camera roll or will my pictures disappear from my computer? im so confused!!

If you delete photo stream photos from your phone they will be deleted from the my photo stream album on your PC. Before doing that, be sure to copy or move them to a different folder on your computer.
Deleting camera roll photos won't delete anything from your computer. If you import them to your computer using your usb cable as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083, you will get an option to delete them from your phone after they are imported.

Syncing, streaming and reaching my atv limit of hd space

Hi,
I am using my atv with Netopia router, no ethernet connection, hanging off latest itunes version running on XP laptop.
Very pleased with the solution for my music needs but now I have reached the capacity of my atv hd space. I want to continue to build up my itunes library but when I sync, ~72 songs have not been passed to the atv due to lack of space.
The problem is that when I look for the songs via the atv with my laptop/itunes on, the songs do not appear to be available. When I look for them on my laptop they are there and I can listen to them.
Assuming that my synced library will also stream I thought that those songs that did not get passed to the atv hd would be streamed, and I can continue to build up my music library.
Is this assumption correct and if so what diagnostics & approach should I apply to correct the situation.
If not what strategy should I adopt to enable me to continue to build my itunes music library beyond the limits of my atv hd.
Finally is there anywhere I can find out the criteria itunes/atv uses to determine what goes to the hd of the atv and what does not?.
Thanks
P
Satellite Windows XP netopia router

Hi Winston C
I have gone to the atv selected source and got the
pass number for the stream.
When I return to the laptop all I see is the normal
Apple TV device and no option to set up the stream.
I am using the my itunes libray as the source.
P
Issue corrected by changing the name of my master itunes library, as the old library name on my laptop was the same as an ipod device that I normally do not use.
So changed the name and now works fine. Now I can proceed with building my itunes library which exceeds the hd limit on the atv and now it is transparent to me what tunes are on my atv and what is streamed.
Thanks
P
Satellite Windows XP

Updates all the photos (cameraroll) in iCloud or is it just photo stream when you sync? I have 5000 photos in the camera but only 800 in the stream and I would like to save them all. How to do?

updates all the photos (cameraroll) in iCloud or is it just photo stream when you sync? I have 5000 photos in the camera but only 800 in the stream and I would like to save them all. How to do?

Plug your iPhone into your Mac and open iPhoto. Transfer the photos from the phone to your Mac.

2 Apple TV's, one streams and one syncs. I want both to stream!

I bought an Apple TV a long time ago, version 1.0, It was setup to stream and working great. I then bought another Apple TV with version 2.0. This Apple TV will only sync and I want it to stream. Both are running version 2.1 and the original one streams like I want but the second syncs and I can't stand that.
I've gotten the syncing Apple TV to sync ONLY the directory and not transfer files but every time I add a new file I have to manually sync it. I also have an iPod that I sync to. In order to fit what I want on the iPod I have to uncheck some files in the iTunes list. When I do this, the second Apple TV syncs and drops anything that isn't checked.
This is a big pain.
If I can just stream to the second Apple TV just like the first one, and sync to my iPod, I would be happy. How do I setup the second Apple TV to stream in version 2.0, like the other one.
Again, the first Apple TV was set to stream when it was running version 1.0. Then when it was updated it retained those settings. I can't find anywhere in 2.0 to set it to stream and not sync.
iMac ----> AirPort Extreme ----> Apple TV 1
----> Apple TV 2
OS X = 10.5.3
iTunes = 7.7.1
Apple TV = 2.1
Does anyone know how to force streaming?

Hi.
I have two identical Apple TVs, version 2.0. One is set up in my bedroom and one in the main living room.
The bedroom connection is as follow:
Cable modem > AirPort Extreme Base Station > Apple TV (all via wired ethernet cable; Another ethernet cable goes to the iMac)
Living room:
Apple TV on my wireless broadband access.
I am able to sync a selected TV shows I bought and want to watch on both devices, of course my bedroom's Apple TV's sync speed is faster. I am also able to stream my entire iTunes song playlists, other TV shows etc.
*Bear in mind your iPhoto collection, or albums, will not stream. They can only be sync.*
At first during the initial set up, I did ran into problem when I was not able to see all my song playlists etc in my living room's Apple TV. I had to "re-initialized" and re-setup the whole thing to get it work.
Maybe you could try that?
Cheers

Apple TV streaming vs syncing and not doing either

I have an Apple TV and a MacPro with an iTunes Library on it. I went to get the ATV on the network and that was just fine. I can get on the internet and watch trailers and download and watch movies. But the iTunes Library won't either stream or sync. It certainly won't sync. It says [in preferences] that it is streaming. And when I check the ATV again ref. the shared libraries of music or photos or podcasts etc, it says "Loading XX Library" - and it's been doing that for about 10 minutes = and I'm right now just testing it with 7 photos and it's not going anywhere.
Network works, ATV can get on internet, it shows up in iTunes, the iTunes Library on the computer is properly named and listed as one of the 'computers' but it won't load to either sync or stream.

It's all about which set up you choose when you set up the library. When you click on the tv in itunes how many tabs do you see (as per the link). If it's only 2 you have set up a secondary library and a secondary library cannot sync.
If this is the case you need to delete (disconnect) on the tv (see the bottom pictures on my link), then you need to start again by 'connecting to itunes' (the top one in the list-where I've denoted 'add a primary library) you will need to go through the pass code thing again, but before you do, look in itunes preferences-tv, ensure that look for Apple tv's is selected and delete any tv's that are already in the list there.

Minimum requirements to stream from and sync to?

I am considering purchasing an AppleTV and was hoping to use my old 533MHz G4 PowerMac as the "host" for my media. I'm running Tiger Server on it with a wire connection to my AirPort Extreme (802.11n). I know the PowerMac itself can't play the HD video based on iTunes 9 requirements but I am hoping I can plug my 1TB drive into it and still stream from and sync back to it.
Any thoughts on the possibility this will work?

as long as you can get the latest and greatest iTunes running on it, it should work fine...
Min Rec for iTunes..
Macintosh Software
Mac OS X version 10.4.11 or later; Mac OS X version 10.5 or later is required to play an iTunes LP or iTunes Extras
QuickTime 7.6 or later
Support for HE-AAC requires QuickTime 7.6.4 and Mac OS X version 10.5 or later
Safari 4 or later
200MB of available disk space
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ITunes sync show stream and actual songs

Some songs on my iPhone 5S are showing up in iTunes (when I view the iPhone in iTunes) as a song and a s a stream.
Pretty sure these were all downloaded from iTunes using my iPhone.
I unchecked Sync music, sync’d then rechecked Sync music but, alas, the songs stay.
I only see one song when I view them in Music app on the directly iPhone.

SO it is showing a stream and it is showing a download.
These songs show up twice in the Music app on the iPhone, once with the cloud symbol and once without.
If I delete the one without a cloud symbol, it shows back up with a cloud symbol (and I have 2 with a cloud symbol).

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