Watch TV
Hello, is there a way to watch local channels in the powerbook? Or the only way is to download some program that gets the stream of the channel online? Thanks!
If what you want is a built-in TV tuner of some description then you are out of luck. None of Apple's current Macintosh computers have built-in TV tuners. Even with accessing online streaming video, you still need the extra component of an internet connection.
That said, the TV mini that was already suggested is a very good solution (but perhaps not exactly what you have in mind). I have been using the non-HD version with my PowerBooks for several months and it has been fantastic. One of the better/best solutions I have used. Very portable, and I can even use it with CyTV to stream content around my home network.
15" 1.25GHz/12" 1GHz PBs, 2xPPC Mac minis, 12" iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.6) Cube, 2xTAMs, iPods 2G/4G, iPs, AEBS, AX
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Let's try the following user tip with that one:
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AirPlay Mirroring requires a second-generation Apple TV or later, OS X 10.8 or better and is supported on the following Mac models: iMac (Mid 2011 or newer), Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer), MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer), and MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer). -
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I assume you are using the Apple TV 1 (silver/grey).
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JasonFromSK wrote:
With the newest Airport firmware (7.6.1), it seems I should be able to do this.
Really? I need to check that out!
You should certainly be able to add content by reference to itunes from such a disk (even before the update) - so long as itunes knows the location of the file (set Preferences not to copy to local library when adding the media) it will stream it to AppleTV if the disk is available.
I hope you're right, but I'd be surprised if current Extremes can be upgarded to provide a full Home Sharing service - marvellous if they can but I'd be surprised as i've long said we need an Apple media server either based on TC or AE to do this kind of thing.
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I live in Texas and am visiting my family in Georgia. I didn't travel with my iPad as there are 4 at home I can use. I sign my brothers Apple ID out in the iTunes Store sign in as myself and attempt to watch a tv show I have purchased and get the for 90 days you can't download anything form iTunes to this device with a different apple ID warning. Why can't I just stream this tv show on my brothers device since I have purchased it on my device and am logged into iTunes on my brothers device with my apple ID? What a pain in the as?.
First of all would not be streaming the show on his iPad, you would be downloading a purchased item on his iPad for free. And it is something that was not purchased with his ID. It was purchased with your ID. I believe that Apple does that to prevent users from giving each other purchased content without buying it on their own. That's my take anyway.
You can read about associating a device with another iTunes account here.
iTunes Store: Associating a device or computer to your Apple ID. -
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According to the FAQ "Once you've started to watch the movie, you have 24 hours to finish watching the movie (even if you start watching before the download is complete). You can watch the movie as many times as you want within this 24-hour period": iTunes Store movie rental usage
If you are having problems you should contact iTunes Store Customer Services. -
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Hi,
Already mentioned on the following post:
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You need a CONVERTER, not ADAPTER The setup:
The following list may help:
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BH
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My child accidentally rented a movie on Apple TV. Is there a way to refund the rental if we don't watch it?
How can I prevent this from happening? Is there a way to password protect future purchases?Did you try Parental Controls?
Apple TV: Understanding Restrictions (parental controls) - Apple Support
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Can't have more than one application watch videos at the same time
The title isn't entirely accurate. I will write all my observations here.
I believe I started to notice these problems since the (recent) X11 update which seems to have happened in July. The subsequent Mesa updates may be related. These updates also caused X11 to crash sometimes, this issue got resolved after a patch update though, it seems.
Before I share my issues I have a Dell Vostro 1500 with the Intel Core 2 Duo processor (which includes the integrated GPU), using the Linux BFS 3.16.6-2-x86_64 kernel (plan to upgrade tomorrow morning while the internet is quick) and the packages listed in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics.
The most reproducible version of this problem I've had has to do with Chromium, VLC/MPlayer/MPV and to an extent Firefox.
To reproduce all I have to do is have Chromium open and watch some video on YouTube (HTML5 as I do not have version with Flash included). Then I open a video in VLC/MPlayer/MPV and one of two things can happen:
It can work on VLC, but then if I go back to the HTML5 video when I press play it tells me it has crashed and I should reload the tab.
VLC simply does not work and it plays the audio but no video, sometimes not even the audio.
This is VLC's output in a case where nor the audio or video work (and the HTML5 crashed as well):
https://imgur.com/J897mMG,17xu7ip (album of 2 scrots)
I had to close VLC for the HTML5 to work, and if you're curious, yes I am listening to Weird Al as I write this. Most of the time I have to reset X11 (or even reboot) to be able to watch videos or listen to audio with VLC again. I have noticed that sometimes if I haven't watched a video for a long time VLC works again (or at least the audio does, sometimes the video).
OK so that's with video apps. This may be unrelated but I think it's worth mentioning here. With Firefox I run into an issue where Flash gets super glitchy, it gets stuck in one glitchy frame or it flashes between two glitchy frames, sometimes it shows the video in the background with the glitchy frames on top still flashing (so I get glimpses of the video), and other glitches.
Some of the ways I fix it are to reload the tab, open a new Firefox window and open the video there, reset Firefox, close Chromium's video tabs, amongst others. None of these work 100% of the time. Sometimes none of them work.
That is all that I can think of. I've been doing a couple of weeks of tests and normal usage in order to acquire this report so it'd be cool if there's a solution.
Thanks! If there are any questions or further information you need, feel free to ask.
Last edited by Greduan (2014-11-14 00:17:51)@kalos
Uninstalled everything PA, also uninstalled mangler which was the only thing that depended on PA. It didn't work anyway.
No pulseaudio --kill command so I couldn't run.
Checked systemd journal and there is no mention of PA this time.
Checked top, and grepped ps aux and there is no PA there either.
I also rebooted the machine completely just to make sure. However VLC and HTML5 have the same incompatibilities.
_ vlc Videos/anime/fmab/01.mp4
VLC media player 2.1.5 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-49-gdab6cb5)
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Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
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But the video and audio did work until I ran some HTML5 video, after which the audio worked, and then I opened it again and it didn't work...
@nomorewindows
I see. That's too bad. At least we're not alone.
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How can I buy films in languages other than German in Germany? Quite disappointed, i would like
to watch films in Original language and not dubbed in strange ways...You are at the mercy of the content owners/copyright holders. They decide what the Apple can sell in each iTS.
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Good day everyone,
I just downloaded three episodes of my favorite show from Itunes (11) and wanted to watch them. However, I can only seem to do it in full screen, which is annoying because I was hoping to use photoshop at the same time as watching them. Is there a way to view M4Vs in not full screen? That would be great because it is already annoying enough that I can't put them on my mp3 player because they are a different format.
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I am noble to watch YouTube videos. This is just a recent problem. Any fixes please?
OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion / Safari 6.0.5
1. System Preferences > Other/ Flash Player > Advanced > Delete All
Press the "Delete All" button
Install Adobe Flash Player.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Quit Safari.
Restart computer. Relaunch Safari.
2. Enable Plug-ins
Safari > Preferences > Security
Web Content: > "Enable Plug-ins".
or
Internet Plug-ins > "Allow all other plug-ins
3. Check whether you are currently in YouTube HTML 5 trial.
http://www.youtube.com/html5
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"You are currently in the HTML5 trial".
4. Reset Safari.
Click Safari in the menu bar.
From the drop down select "Reset Safari".
Uncheck the boxes next to all items.
Check the box next to "Remove all website data".
Click "Reset".
5. Turn off Extensions, if any.
Safari > Preferences > Extensions
Now try YouTube.
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