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iPad is not showing TV Show titles in Video

This is a new one for me.

I've imported some MP4 files into iTunes that I want to be seen in iTunes and iPad as TV Shows. For all the MP4 entries in question I have set in Get Info:
- Options | Media Kind: TV Show
- Video | Show, Season Number, Episode Number
- Info | Name, Artist, Album Artist, Album

The videos play fine and show up in a playlist I have (via the iPod app). However, in Videos, I only see a thumbnail and no Text of any kind. If I click the thumbnail, I see a list of episodes but I only see the "Info | Name" - never any of the other information I've entered... to get around that I gave each of the Episodes their own name (i.e. Show Name 01, Show Name 02) but otherwise, I'd never know which episode was which.

I'm at a loss and the only two web pages I've seen on this involve iTunes 7; I'm on iTunes 9.1 and I did everything I can think of to have the meta data show up.

Thanks!

Core 2 Duo, Windows 7, iPad 64GB with iTunes 9.1

Posted on Apr 7, 2010 10:28 PM

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Jballou

Level 1

10 points

Posted on Apr 7, 2010 11:53 PM

I'm having the exact same issue. I can't tell which show is which sometimes depending on how distinctive the thumbnail is.

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RooneyR

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25 points

Aug 30, 2010 4:19 PM in response to randyrants

Had posted elsewhere, then got tipped to this Thread. I'm having the same problem with no titles in the TV section of videos... with one interesting complication: One of my TV shows DOES have a title, but I've looked and looked but can't see anything that's different in the Get Info windows or anywhere else. I don't have a clue...

BerryCC

Level 1

5 points

Sep 14, 2010 4:11 PM in response to randyrants

I just had to buy a TV show to get any video to appear on my new iPad. I cannot sync the Buffy show I had on my iTouch. It shows up under TV shows on the iPad when syncing in iTunes, but then it does not show up in Videos. The new purchase does. This kind of stinks.

pjnorris

Level 1

0 points

Sep 25, 2010 4:57 PM in response to BerryCC

Any news on a fix Apple? iOS4 Beta 1 for the iPad does not fix this yet

Dpolo

Level 1

0 points

Oct 11, 2010 5:05 PM in response to randyrants

It has everything to do with the artwork size. Remove the artwork or use a smaller image. Now all the titles show for me.

wdwman

Level 1

8 points

Apr 6, 2011 1:29 PM in response to randyrants

I'm having the same problem as well. I didn't try the smaller images fix, but my images are just the poster frames from each video, so I don't think there's any way to make those smaller.

Endareth

Level 1

8 points

Jul 19, 2011 4:32 AM in response to randyrants

Also having this same issue with the Video app on my iPad. It's irritating enough having to use a separate app for music and videos, along with losing the ability to have video playlists, but having to go into every single series/season section just to see what the **** the actual video is is ridiculous! I can't even rely on series artwork as most of the vids don't show any (completely intermittent, and no way I can see to set it properly). This has been going on for way to long with any sign of Apple trying to fix it. I tend to watch more videos on my iPhone simply because I can easily and quickly find what I want to watch, and queue up episodes I want as a result.

Mudchute

Level 1

4 points

Oct 10, 2011 5:41 PM in response to randyrants

My suggestion is to use Get Info and change all the affected TV Shows to Movies. I know this isn't ideal but at least all the names show up properly then.

Oct 30, 2011 3:42 AM in response to randyrants

I know this is a big necro but I wasn't sure if anyone had ever found a solution to this, but I recently did and thought I'd share.

It simply seems to bug out if a show with the same name already exists in the iTunes store. So if that's the case, I simply added a space to the end of the show name and it solved the problem.

Oct 30, 2011 3:13 PM in response to Matthew786

Where did you add the space? I've tried it in several places and it still doesn't show title or season #. Using iOS5 and it still hasn't been fixed!

Oct 30, 2011 9:16 PM in response to ozziepete

Under "Get Info > Video > Show" is where I added the space. My test series was Enterprise, which is on the iTunes store. So I did "Enterprise " instead of "Enterprise" and it worked.

Oct 30, 2011 10:35 PM in response to Matthew786

Thanks but it didn't work for me. I added a space after the name and it shows up in the list of episodes, but it still doesn't show up under the pic 😟

So frustrating! Hard to believe that the bug (feature?) is still there after so long ...

Will keep looking!

Oct 31, 2011 3:00 PM in response to ozziepete

No go for me either, as the os gets more buzzers and bells the more like windows it gets 😊 the stupid thing is that it all works fine under windows.

It has somthing to do with the size of the graphics as when it is syncing if you look on the ipad the text with the season is there but it looks like the graphics then loads over it. Anybody any idea how th get over this stupid stupid issue. come on Apple pull your finger out we have all paid you good money for your products and we deserve support 😠

Oct 31, 2011 3:38 PM in response to mjdennison

There is no fix for this because it is not a bug or error.

This is the way it is suppose to work.

TV shows show only the season, the artwork tells you what show it is.

Endareth

Level 1

8 points

Oct 31, 2011 6:01 PM in response to Johnathan Burger

Requiring users to manually create artwork for a show to indicate the name of the show really is insane. And it's not like there's insufficient screen space to simply display the name of the show in any case. Ridiculous design decision by someone...

Oct 31, 2011 10:15 PM in response to Johnathan Burger

But mine doesn't ever display the season either, even on stuff downloaded from iTunes store.

iPad is not showing TV Show titles in Video