Video is not streaming via home sharing to apple TV V2, any thoughts?

Video is not streaming via home sharing to apple TV V2, any thoughts?

Troubleshooting Home Sharing with Apple TV (2nd generation)

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  • Cant watch videos on my IPhone via Home sharing

    I am able to access the videos on my IPhone via Home Sharing, but when i click on a video i get this message "you do not have permission to access the requested resource"
    I have ITunes 10.6.1, I have already made sure that the Homesharing is On for the local network. My IPhone and my Mac are on same netowrk but still whenever I try to open a video from the ITunes library on my IPhone I get this message "you do not have permission to access the requested resource"
    Does anybody else have the same problem? Strangely I dont have any problem accssing Music.

    What is the source of the videos? With what app are you playing the videos?

  • Videos replicate on ipad via home sharing

    I have a series of videos that I have connected to Home Sharing. My air, imac (both using Lion), and original apple tv all see the video files correctly via itunes (where applicable). However, when accessing the videos on the ipad2, not all the videos show up. Some of the videos are repicated multiple times. What can I do to fix this?

    I just fixed the multiple TV Show Icons issue by making sure the "Artist" & "Show" have exactly the same thing on it. 
    In other words Select all the episodes in a single season on itunes, then go to "Get Info" select the "Info" Tab and in "Artist" type in the of the show "ABC", then click on the "Video Tab" and make sure it says the exact same thing "ABC" as the "Show".  This will fix the repeated icons on the screen and puts all your episodes under the same icon however the sequence of the episodes are now out of order.
    Have not figured out how to correct the sequence yet.

  • Can no longer play movies via home sharing on Apple TV 2

    I'm having trouble sharing movies via iTunes through home sharing.  Everything I have is Mac, a 2008 iMac, Airport Extreme, (2) Apple TV 2's, and a Macbook Pro.  Everything was fine with this entire setup with all of the movies I've ripped (using the Apple TV 2 settings in Handbrake) until Lion came out. Suddenly I got the 'Content cannot be displayed. Try again later' error message.  After much searching, I found that disabling IPv6 was a good solution, temporarily, that is until Apple released iOS 5.  I updated the ATV2's, iPhone, and iPad, and iMac with everything that came out during the update, and the issue came back.
    I've tried everything I can think of, changing router channels, disabling IPv6 everywhere I saw it, wireless, hardwired, reloading the library, disabling the firewall, countless restarts of all my equipement etc.  All of these movies worked perfectly before the updates, and suddenly I cant stream anything through my local MAC network. 
    Has anyone else seen this? Has anyone found any solutions for this problem? I could really use the help, Apple support is... limited. 

    Problem solved for me!  After trying every possible setting on my equipment, including changing firmware revs on my router, rebuilding my library, re-encoding certain movies, changing all my iTunes, Network, Security, Sharing, and WiFi settings, I finally figured it out. 
    It looks to be a bug with the new iOS release V4.4 - Assuming you have your movies encoded in 5.1AC3 surround, you have to go into the Audio & Video settings on your ATV2, go down to Dolby Digital, and change the setting from Auto to On.  For me at least, it was simple as that.  I've tried all the same movies I was trying to play before, only then I was getting 'An error occurred loading this content.'  After changing the setting from Auto to On, every single movie began working again, in full surround sound. To test it, I switched the setting back to Auto and the same problem came back.  I'm sure Apple will have a fix for this later, but for now, we can assume 'Auto' means 'You cant stream your movies.'
    I hope this helps!

  • HT4557 I have done both of the above but it's still not showing as home sharing on my phone.. any advice?

    I cannot use home sharing on my iphone.. signed into home sharing on my comp, and iphone but nothing showing up.. how can I play my comp music through phone and homesharing?

    troubleshooting http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
    understanding http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819

  • Why won't some of my MP4s stream to Apple TV (or iPad) via Home Sharing?

    Hi all. I've been converting my DVDs, HD-DVDs, and Blu-rays to MP4, using MakeMKV and then Handbrake 0.9.9.5530 64-bit for encoding. I have been intending to play the files on my iPad, both transferring to the device and streaming via Home Sharing. I also want stream these via Apple TV (3rd gen, Model A1427) in the house via Home Sharing.
    All the files sourced from HD-DVDs & Blu-rays seem to work fine. However, more than half the DVDs I've converted -- using the same Handbrake preset I've been using for the BRs -- will not play back on the iPad, or streamed to the iPad, or streamed to Apple TV. The files will copy to the iPad, but for both device playback and streaming, I get the error message "The operation could not be completed." On Apple TV, it's "An error occurred loading this content, try again later."
    The files will play in iTunes for Windows, and they will play in VLC. (Files bought from the iTunes Store also stream fine.) There is no metadata in these files, but I am manually adding a poster image once I drop them into iTunes.
    It seems pretty clear that this is a problem with the file itself, but since the only issues I'm having involve streaming, I reset my router for good measure. I restarted the Apple TV and quit all the apps on my iPad before restarting it, too. I've also made sure the firmware on all devices is up to date. None of that had an effect.
    I compared a DVD rip (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adeventure) to a BR rip (Independence Day). Both feature exactly the same bitrates & sample rates for video and audio -- according to the Windows Properties -> Details tab, Data rate is 1499kbps, Total bitrate 1659, 23 frames/second, 2 stereo audio channels at 48KHz. The only difference is the BR frame size is larger (1920x812), and of course the run times & file sizes are different. But the bigger file plays fine, and a lot of these smaller files do not.
    MP4s from DVDs that will stream: Toy Story, Dead Again, Clue, School of Rock.
    MP4s from DVDs that won't stream: Ocean's Eleven, Escape from New York, Galaxy Quest, Robocop (Criterion). Shaun of the Dead, Team America World Police
    Again, these were all converted on the same PC with the same software and same settings. If there's a common thread among the source material of the MP4s that will play and won't play, I don't know what it is, but I figured it would not hurt to list it. 
    My Handbrake settings are based on Handbrake's AppleTV 2 preset, with the following modifications:
    Avg Bitrate 1500, 2-pass, no turbo 1st pass
    Framerate: 30, Peak
    Optimize:
    x264 Preset: Very Slow
    H.264 Profile: High
    H.264 Level: 3.1
    Container is MP4, as is the file extension. (Since dragged-and-dropped MKV files default to M4V in Handbrake, I select MKV then re-select MP4 from the Container drop-down before adding to Handbrake's queue.)
    Someone suggested I simply change the file extension to M4V, so I tried it, but that did not fool any of the stream devices.
    I have been testing the output MP4 files on my PC as I go, and once they played fine in VLC after Handbrake, I have been deleting the MKV files. I can go back and rip them all again if I have to (these are all from DVDs I personally own), but obviously I'd rather not do that! So my questions now are:
    - Could this be related to the audio stream? I've been opting for the DD 3/2.1 stream whenever possible when ripping, and letting Handbrake mix it down.
    - If I run the MP4s through Handbrake a second time with a different setting, will it do a pass-through convert instead of a full re-encode? (I don't want to shrink the video if only the audio needs attention.) If so, which setting should that be?
    - Is there a way to repair these MP4 files without completely starting over with a fresh MKV?
    - If I have to start from scratch, should I go with Constant Quality over Average Bitrate?
    Hopefully someone can spot my issue based on this description. I'm happy to send you my Handbrake settings as a .plist file and offer any other info I can, as I'm stumped as to what went wrong. There has to be a logical reason. Thanks!

    I've continued tests on different films, and tried my entire collection. I've found about two dozen that will play fine on the PC, but will not cooperate when streamed to either Apple TV or my iPad. I tried several more tests with the audio, and that turned out not to be a factor -- I could not replicate that on another test.
    I wonder if something in the header of these files is corrupted or a flag is set incorrectly or something along those lines, as the data appears to be fine -- it's just not "handshaking" with my streaming hardware and/or the Apple Home Sharing code that powers it.
    Is there any way for me to "scrub" these files and amend their headers, or get into the file and tinker with that info by hand?

  • Video app on iPhone or iPad via Home Sharing is not playing movie's sound or video.

    I can successfully connect to iTunes library via Home Sharing on my iPhone 6 Plus and iPad 3rd Generation. In Music app it works ok, but in Videos app, when I try to play a movie it doesn't play the video (but the sound) or the sound (but the video). Sometimes it's one situation and other times is the opposite.

    Greetings avilation, 
    Thanks for participating in the Apple Support Communities. 
    It sounds like when you stream videos to your iOS devices using Home Sharing, you only get either video or audio. 
    You can find some troubleshooting steps that may help this situation on this page:
    Troubleshooting Home Sharing - Apple Support
    I'd recommend starting with Step 4 (Check your network connection) in this guide.
    Best Regards,
    Jeremy 

  • Why do actor/director tags not appear on iPad via home sharing?

    I have imported some movies (not purchased from iTunes) into iTunes, and added tags. The movies play perfectly in iTunes, and via home sharing on my iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV 2. The strange thing is that some of the tags (actors, director) don't display on the iPad when looking at the movie info in the Videos app. They do display on the Apple TV and in iTunes.
    Any ideas why this would be so? I know that iTunes movie rentals do display such information on the iPad, so it doesn't seem like this is just not a supported feature.

    Also, to expand a bit on this, the list of actors also shows on my iPhone if I touch and hold the name of the movie. So, it seems only the iPad is not getting it.

  • Just hooked up new apple tv for first time. able to connect to internet (netflix, youtube) but not able to connect to my itunes account via home sharing. apple tv tells me to make sure computer's itunes has home-sharing enabled, which it does. any advice?

    Just hooked up new apple tv for first time. able to connect to internet (netflix, youtube) but not able to connect to my itunes account via home sharing. apple tv tells me to make sure computer's itunes has home-sharing enabled, which it does. any advice?

    Have done both suggestions, still not working. Could it have somehting to do with my local network? I am using a wireless Internet provided by my apartment building so not sure if apple tv and my computer are not technically on the same "local network?"
    apple tv and main computer are connecting to Internet fine. Just cannot see my itunes on apple tv.
    any other advice? My itunes is turned on to home sharing. i entered the same apple itunes account into aple tv. but appletv keeps saying my computer's home sharing is not turned on...but it is.

  • ITunes 11 and no ability to drag and drop via home sharing...

    I can find NO way to drag and drop playlists via home sharing now with Itunes 11...any help appreciated.

    PROBLEM SOLVED -
    I found this on someone else's post on another website...
    You have to sign into your home sharing with the SAME apple ID and password on each computer. It's common for people to want to put their individual/own ID and password on "their" computer, but that is not correct to fully authorize home share. Even on someone else's machine on your network, you still use the same apple ID and password for all computers you want to home share with. The other computer isn't getting access to your account or anything like that. You just have to use the same ID and password on each machine and that will enable home share among all home share computers that logged in with that ID and password. Otherwise you will just be able to see and stream the other computer's content, but you will not be able to copy it over or drag and drop.

  • HT3819 Can I transfer music from one computer to another via home sharing?

    Can I transfer my music from one computer to another via home sharing?

    So long as they are on the same wifi network, yes.
    Have both computers running and have iTunes open on both computers.
    Now, in the iTunes on the computer you want to transfer music to, select the library that you want to transfer music from, as per the following screenshot:
    Once the other library loads, go down to the bottom of the screen and in "Show:" select "Items not in my library":
    If you want to import all of the songs you can now see, head up to the iTunes menu bar and go "Edit > Select all". Then head down to the bottom of the screen again and click the "Import" button in the bottom-right-hand corner.
    If there's a lot of stuff in the library you're transferring from, the transfer may take some time.

  • Apple TV won't play music from one device via Home Sharing.

    So I have just bought a new Mac, with which I got an Apple TV. I'm trying to save disk space on my Mac so I've setup my old computer (with my old iTunes library) as a Home Sharing hub kind of thing. However, the Apple TV seems not to want to play music from this device...it shows the song, but the buffering symbol comes up under the song and nothing happens. Sometimes some songs will work, and shuffling also seems to work, but it will randomnly skip some songs without even attempting playback.
    I've tried playing the same music on the Apple TV via Home Sharing on my Mac — fine. I've tried listening to the music (and just generally playing music) using Home Sharing from my old laptop to my Mac and it's fine, impressively speedily, in fact.
    Does anybody have any ideas as to what may cause this?
    Thanks

    Dutch Oven wrote:
    I am having a similar issue, but it's only affecting stuff I added to my library > 9 months ago. See the thread I created here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2601054&tstart=0. How long ago was your music added to your library? I'm guessing it was a while ago.
    I added my music to iTunes years ago. Most of it was with version 6.x of iTunes. I see all of my music and it plays fine so something else must be triggering the problem.
    I also have 'Show list checkboxes' checked.

  • Playlists not working in Home Sharing

    My setup:  iTunes 11 on Windows 7 PC, Home Sharing enabled, Apple TV 2 with latest firmware, Remote app on iPad 3
    Initially I couldn't get Home Sharing to work at all, then discovered it was an issue with my Verizon FIOS Actiontec M1424WR router.  Solved that problem by going into Advanced settings for the router and disabling the IGMP Proxy.
    Now when I start the Remote app on my iPad I can get to my library, but I'm having problems with playlists and podcasts:
    1.  The playlists won't play at all.  I can play individual podcasts but not playlists.  Anyone know how to get playlists working?
    2.  Within playlists the podcast order is changed.  Anyone know how to get Home Sharing to stop changing the podcast order?
    3.  Home Sharing is also changing the order of podcasts within the podcast itself - for example if I have NPR All Things Considered as a podcast, it changes the order of the individual stories.  This is very annoying - anyone know how to make it stop doing this?
    Any help is appreciated.

    OK still having the same problem but now I'm using a workaround.  From iTunes on my PC, I select Apple TV from the speaker list, (via the icon that has a triangle within a rectangle) then start the playlist from there.  The podcasts start playing and can then be controlled, e.g. paused, from the Remote app on my iPad.  Also on the iPad in the list view up at the top it shows the upcoming podcasts and they are in the right order.  It would be nice if Apple fixed this so that the podcast playlist could be started from the iPad instead of having to start it from the PC.

  • HT3819 I have synced my ipad and iphone 5 to itunes and all my songs appear in the device library but i cannot ply all of the songs unless via home sharing. How can i ensure that my libraries appear on each device as the syncing process seems to be failin

    Syncing problems.
    How can I sync my iphone 5 and ipad to ensure that i dont need to use home sharing to access all of my music library?

    I don't think I have made myself clear... I have recently upgraded my iPhone 4 to a 5 so everything was set up to sync with no problems at all. I transferred everything across to my new device by iCloud and everything appears as it was on my old device including on the face of it my music library. However, I cannot play all of the songs in fact the majority! When at home I can access the entire library via home sharing but that is no use away from the house. I never had this problem with iPhone 4 and although I am automatically syncing the device to iTunes it is not working. If I try to play songs via the device it skips until it finds a song that cAn be played and if I try and play the device via the laptop/iTunes an ! Type signal appears and I cannot play the song!
    Any ideas re solutions would be appreciated???

  • HT4527 Copying ratings via home sharing

    Hi,
    is it possible to get the ratings across as well when importing via home sharing? I use smart playlists so I'd like to be able to transfer the ratings of the songs as well. Many thanks. I'm assuming that's in the XML. Note I don't want to import the whole library, rather, selected albums from time to time
    Cheers
    Not this is using macs. For some reason I can only pick iTunes via windows in the drop down list

    Home Sharing Support page - http://www.apple.com/support/homesharing/
    Troubleshooting Home Sharing - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972

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