When I "rent" a movie, is it available while I'm in "airplane mode"?
I'm flying in a week. Last trip, plane's entertainment wasn't working. If I download a rented movie, will it store in my Ipad mini, so that I can watch it while off WiFi? How much memory do TV episodes and movies typically take?
It is downloaded to the iPad's Videos app, rentals (and purchased films from iTunes) are not streamed.
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I bought an Apple TV and when I rent a movie, I get a display saying that no HDCP is available. How can I solve this problem?
Have you verified that your TV is HDCP compliant? Consult manual and/or post model so someone can check.
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Help... Have ate in living room & bedroom & I could works fine on iPhone4 as well as ipad2 wifi. I have home sharing enabled on all but when I rented a movie it was all good & charged but the download took over 24 hours & only in the bedroom.... Please help
The remote app can either automatically find libraries available on a network (with home sharing available) or if you haven't got home sharing enabled, you can manually pair an itunes library with the remote app (using a number that is generated by the app and then typed into the itunes library).
That is why I am so confused, as it seems to be the home sharing that is the problem! -
When I purchase movies from Itunes I am unable to view them. But when I rent a movie it is viewable. Why is this?
Heres what I don't like about VLC, but at least the files are viewable...somewhat.
1. You can't flip the image 90degrees, needs to have a rotate feature for sure. This needs to have keyboard shortcut so vids can be rotated easily as one may have shot video horizontally and vertically in the same take.
2. Opens file to a very large window, most of it off the screen, it should REMEMBER what you resized it to, so the next time a video is played you don't have to drag the window back on the screen so you can get to the resizing handle in the lower corner.
3. Doesn't buffer while playing, so the movies are extremely erractic, starting and stopping every 3 seconds, highly annoying.
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Maybe I should think about a new computer. -
As a new user of Apple TV, I need some assistance.When I rent a movie on iTunes and download for viewing later, say a day or two later, It seems to load itself all over again with a msg saying ready to view in 25 mins ! So having waited the 25 mins movie starts and runs for maybe 1 hour and the pauses for maybe 5 mins while it seems to load again . any help appreciated
Welcome to the Apple Community.
If you use the Apple TV for something else or turn it off it will erase whatever is on it's drive. If you are going to download content for later viewing you might consider doing it on the computer, downloads don't disappear until they expire and you can watch them as many times as you want. -
When I rent a movie from itunes library on my desktop it is not showing up under rented on my Apple tv? This has not happened before?. Can I rent or buy directly from Apple TV? I hope someone can answer this silly question.
CarolWelcome to the Apple Community.
You can purchase or rent it direct from the Apple TV or from the computer. If you rent/purchase from the computer, it must fully download to the computer before it will show up under computers > rentals on the TV. -
When I rent a movie using Apple TV,it takes several hours to load. At this point, I opt to watch later. When I try to watch the movie, it starts loading again and tells me that it will be ready to watch in one hour forty four minutes. This can't be normal. Is there something I am doing wrong? Any suggestions.
If it's taking several hours then that is likely due to your internet connection. You can verify at speedtest.net
6mbps required for instant 720P
8mbps for 1080P
You can switch to SD in the settings (which only requires 3mbps)
You can also check istumbler or netstumbler for interference
Make sure you are on your ISPs DNS
The reloading is normal. There is no accessible storage on ATV. The small flash is used for caching streamed content, if you access other things or turn the device off it will be flushed. -
HT1657 when I rent a movie, can I download it to watch it offline?
when I rent a movie, can I download it to watch it offline?
ThanksAs long as it has been fully downloaded then you should be able to watch it whilst offline
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When I rent a movie do I have to have wifi to watch it?
When I rent a movie from iTunes, do I have to have a wifi connection in order to watch it?
Yes. Once the movie is fully downloaded to the iPad you do not need an Internet connection to watch the movie.
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When I rent a movie can I watch it with out a WiFi connection
when I rent a movie do I need a WiFi connection to watch it
Hi hurtmark,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. Based on what you stated, it sounds like you want to know if once a rental is downloaded will you need WiFi to play the movie. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help the issue.
iTunes Store: Viewing and downloading HD content on iPad - Apple Support
Movie Rentals on iPad
Movies rented on iPad cannot be transferred to other devices and can only be viewed on iPad.
An Internet connection to the iTunes Store is required to authorize playback of movie rentals.
Cheers,
Mario -
i just upgraded my apple TV and now when I rent a movie on iTunes, instead of it playing instantly, it takes 60 hours to load. Anyone else have this problem?
Apple Support, I have just purchased 3 movies 2 from my account and 1 from my wifes account and both systems are stating that it will take 2 days to download. I have a FIOS 150 megabit per second up and 150 megabit per second down busiuness class fiber service to my location. I have tested downloading 10Gbyte files from two other locations and both work fine. I additionally went out and have tested doing speed tests (http://www.speedtest.net/) from over 10 other locations all over the US and all are over 75 magabits per second download speeds with a few hitting 100 and 125 megabit per second speeds. What is wrong with your servers or your internet connection????
This is VERY FUSTRATING!!!
I have additionally tried to download them with my Apple TV and two different PCs all wired on Gigabit Ethernet with jumbo frames enabled. I have tried differnet DNS servers also. I can upload and download files to my office 50G in less than 1 hour. I have also download movies from 2 other movie sites without any problems. -
When I rent a movie I dont have sound whearas extrait is ok ,,?
When I rent a movie i dont have sound whereas i see the extract it is ok ' , why
Welcome to the Apple Community.
Have you tried adjusting the "Audio Out" and the "Dolby Digital" settings in settings > audio and video? It may be worth trying several combinations of these settings, although typically it is the "Dolby Digital" setting that causes most problems for users.
If you are using a sound system/receiver, make sure that you have correctly mapped the input port on your sound system to the output, if you are unsure about how to do this, refer to the manual that came with your sound system.
Have you tried playing various content sources (i.e. podcasts, music, iTunes Store video, other video etc), do you have the same problem with all types of content? If you use optical you might also check that you can see a red light at the end of your optical audio cable. Is your optical audio cable plugged straight into your sound system, or does it go through a switch or other device? -
when you rent a movie through apple tv should i be able to get it on my mac and iPad2 through itunes
Welcome to the Apple Community.
No, if you rent a movie on anything other than your computer it can only be watched on that device. If you want to watch it on multiple devices, rent it on the computer then it can be transferred between devices, but can't be moved to more than one device at a time. -
When I rent a movie on Apple TV it tells me I have 4 hrs until I can play it...How can I stream the movie so I can watch it right away?
AppleTV has fixed size rental files. These will have a given bitrate of so many Mbps.
For HD the minimum recommended internet speed for near instant rentals is 6 Mbps.
If you have less than that then clearly a movie cannot play in real time - say you get 3 Mbps connection but film is 6 Mbps you only get half the data in 'real time' so can't play. They get around this by calculating how much of a rental needs to download to memory to the allow the remainder of the data to follow on. So for your rental after 4 hours enough of the stream will have 'downloaded' to allow you to start watching with the remaining data following on as you watch in real time.
I suspect you are getting under 2-3 Mbps or therabouts.
Your options are to get a faster connection or change settings to rent SD not HD - SD generally starts much quicker.
An annoying thing with AppleTV2 is that if you do something else while 'prebuffering' a chunk of the film, this chunk can be flushed from memory to do the other task eg stream local movie or view movie trailers.
I'm sure you've looked at streaming video on webpages in the past where it stops and starts all the time when your connection is slow. This is what would happen to your rental if AppleTV tried to play it on a slow connection - it would kep stopping and starting.
Netflix on the other hand apparently adjusts quality (and hence bitrate) downwards with slower connections so they seem to work quicker. -
Why is it when I rent a movie from Apple it takes all night to load & when I try to play it starts to load again for a while before it plays ? Netflix loads & plays in seconds [ usually] in the same device!
Welcome to the Apple community.
One of the main reasons this occurs is because Netflix uses a feature called adaptive quality and iTunes uses a fixed quality. Netflix is able to reduce its quality to such an extent when it detects that you have a poor Internet connection that the data rate of the movie is as low as 0.5 Mb per second, on the other hand if you have chosen to view an HD movie from iTunes U have chosen a movie with a data rate as high as 5 Mb per second.
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