New Here with a ? about QuickTime on iPad

Question

New Here with a ? about QuickTime on iPad

Have searched until I am blind from looking for how to get Quicktime on my iPad (64Gb WiFi) we got yesterday. No videos will play on the Apple Website, very frustrated. If this is a repeat and I missed it yawning looking for it, I'm sorry.

Edited by: Major

iMac11,1 Intel Core i7, Mac OS X (10.6.3), 1st iMac

Posted on Jun 13, 2010 10:29 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Best reply

MichelPM

Level 10

80,958 points

Jun 13, 2010 11:00 AM in response to Major and LeggyLady

The iPad cannot play/view or load QuickTime videos, directly, nor is it capable of loading the QuickTme application.
Portable devices like iPods, iPhones and iPads can view videos in either .mp4 or H.264 formats.
To put QuickTime videos onto your iPad to view and play them, you need to drag and drop the QT videos into iTunes and then look for the menu option to convert the QT video to iPod format. This converts the QT data into .mp4 format that all iDevices can read.
I am not sure if you need to purchase the full QT Pro registration to do this, though.

Reply

Answer 2

red555

Level 4

2,581 points

Jun 13, 2010 11:01 AM in response to Major and LeggyLady

Quicktime should be loaded with the OS software.
If it's not running Apple web videos, you can try the following:

1) Press and Hold the Home and Wake Sleep buttons until the Apple Logo appears.

2) If that doesn't work, try a reset, To reset go to Settings, General, Reset, Reset.

3) Restore the ipad using itunes on your computer.

If it still doesn't work, contact an expert at:
http://www.apple.com/support/expert/

Hope this helps...

Reply

Answer 3

MichelPM

Level 10

80,958 points

Jun 13, 2010 11:02 AM in response to Major and LeggyLady

Hmmm...
Videos on Apple's should play on the iPad with no issues.
Did you try then ones on the home page?
They play fine for me.
I have the 16 GB WiFi model.
These videos play fine.

Reply

Answer 4

Jun 13, 2010 11:04 AM in response to Major and LeggyLady

All videos on Apples web site will play on the iPad. Please post an URL to a video that is giving you troubles with playback. QuickTime is already on the iPad it's called the video app.

Reply

Answer 5

Jun 13, 2010 11:28 AM in response to Major and LeggyLady

Thank you one and all for the responses. Did the RESET and now the videos play.

Reply

Answer 6

MichelPM

Level 10

80,958 points

Jun 13, 2010 11:35 AM in response to David M Brewer

I went to a site that had older QT videos on them (they were old Apple videos).
The iPad will not play them. Are you sure the iPad plays QT native videos?
Here's a link to the site.

http://www.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/old-apple-ads.html

Does iPad play older QT videos or only those with newer QT codecs?

Reply

Answer 7

Jun 13, 2010 11:43 AM in response to MichelPM

That's not an Apple web page. Those videos are to old to be playback on the iPad. (I've been to this site years ago.)

Reply

Answer 8

Jun 13, 2010 11:51 AM in response to MichelPM

I justed looked at one of those videos on my desktop computer. They are using the old Sorenson Video codec. Nobody uses this codec anymore. Some of the encodings is over ten years old. Not playable on the iPad.

Reply

Answer 9

Jun 13, 2010 12:03 PM in response to MichelPM

There is a firmware problem when playing back videos on the iPad. Doing a reboot will clears it.

Reply

Answer 10

jembea

Level 1

0 points

Dec 15, 2010 7:16 PM in response to Major and LeggyLady

Also new with a ? about QuickTime on iPad and Mail. My QuickTime attachment will not play.

Reply

Answer 11

RAH2008

Level 1

0 points

Apr 14, 2011 9:12 PM in response to David M Brewer

here are two sites that are movie-heavy: Judygarlandmuseum.com. And theperformancellab.org.
Since the sense of these websites depends on being able to access clips and the like, not having these movies ruins the experience.

Is there a solution? An alert that can be posted for visitors?

Reply

Answer 12

zelduh

Level 1

0 points

Jun 25, 2011 6:12 PM in response to red555

I cannot watch msnbclive.eu. So I have to bring my heavier, clumsier Android tablet along with me if I wanna watch TV @ work, etc. Such a bummer. Is there anything that works for that??

I also like watching BBC News at http://ready-tv.com/?p=136 which also requires Quicktime. Again, I can only watch it on my Android. I REALLY would like to dump the Android, so . . . Any ideas??

Reply