iTunes Movie won't Play on iPad

I have the iPad2, I turned it off, then back on, and it plays fine now.

have you had any luck? Any suggestions?

This worked for me -

Good Luck!

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1389

I have 2 movies I have had for LONG time purchased throught ITunes (Megaminda and a Thomas the Tank Engine Movie). I had not problems until I upgraded to IPad IOS 5.0.1 and it crashed the IPad and I had to do a restore on teh IPad and restore from combination of ICloud and ITunes Sync. But My Movies are now Grayed out. I can play them in Itunes fine and it shows in Itunes they are on the Ipad (still gray though) but they don't show up in the videos app or in the Purchased tab or Itunes App. Acutally when I go to Purchased it states I have no music purchased through Itunes which is true but it don't let me see anything about my movie purchases... they do show up under purchased section in Itunes though... This is wierd... I did the Reboot even had it off over night a couple times... no help. I really don't want to hack it or anything with third party software so I hope someone can give me some advise on this one to try that is different. Any help is appreciated. thanks!

Same problem here. Restart ipad then they will play fine. Hold down home button and "turn screen off" button at the same time to power off and then so the same thing to power back on.

I was having the same problem. I found this article on the Apple Support page:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3771?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US&cid=acs-itunesa pp-us-qtmore&cp=acs-itunesapp-us-qtmore.

I did what it said and now it works.

Hi,

I bought The Big Bang Theory series, I transfer each title to H264 (mp4) chapters, the chapters plays on iTunes but in my ipad2 can´t play it.

I already try to use the advance/create ipad version and says: its already in correct format

I already turn off the ipad and turn on

I have the 5.0.1 OS

Don´t know what else can I do?

Can anyone help me or suggest something?

thank you!

If it is a downloaded copy from the iTunes Store, and not a copy that came with a physical copy of the movie, then you may need to have the download re-granted from iTunes Store Support via Express Lane at apple.com/support/itunes if it won't allow you to try and re-download.

Try this worked for me. Power off using button on side not on main screen, hold down for 5 secs. Then re power using same button.

I had this same issue; and after a restart, it persisted. I then remembered that I had launched the Videos app earlier to view the other movies I had transfered. Sure enough, all of my background applications survivied the reboot. So, try explictly double tapping the home button, pressing the video icon until it wiggles, and then closing it with a tap to the red x. Sorry for being so verbose, but I'm sure a lot of novice users will read this too.

What I've done to get around this problem is, after some research, downloaded a free MP4 converter. The converter I use even has an "MP4 for iPad" option. After this the video usually drops right into iTunes via a drag and drop.

I hope this helps. iTunes doesn't seem to like reading files other than those so after that any other problems should be fixed by what was written elsewhere in this thread.