iPad video failing to appear

I have the EXACT same problem. Some digital copy movies (namely, The Happening and Wall*E), if synced into the iPad, make it act like there's no videos in it. Every single video is gone, even video podcasts.

Needless to say, this is really frustrating. I'm going to upgrade to iTunes 9.2 in the hopes the issue will go away.

Mine is doing the same. All the movies and television shows were purchased through iTunes and were visible prior to the 9.2 upgrade. Now nothing displays. Have tried multiple sync attempts, turned the iPad on and off completely several times, reset all settings on videos, restarted iTunes, etc. Nothing works. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

What I'd suggest is take all the videos off the iPad, and sync one by one until you find out which one is the culprit.

Not a perfect fix, but at least you can have your other videos.

I'm starting to think it has to do with the way the iPad handles DRM. So far all the triggers seem to be digital copies and/or videos purchased in the iTunes Store.

Which is pretty ironic when you think about it. I'd be willing to bet pirates aren't having the same troubles. Without fail, DRM always ends up screwing the legitimate customers.

I had removed and attempted to reinstall the videos multiple times. I double checked "Restrictions" to make sure they were off. Turned them on and then off again. Prior attempts to sync data were done by selecting the box to "Include Episodes/Movies from Playlists." I unchecked this box and deleted the playlist. I finally achieved success in syncing all videos by undertaking the one-at-a-time approach. Hopefully this was just an odd glitch. Thanks for the help.

I'm glad it worked for you, but the same method didn't work for me. Transfering one movie at a time works for singling out the video that's causing the bug, but I cannot get it to work with the iPad at all. If I transfer them, every single video on the iPad disappears.

This is beyond frustrating. First my digital copy of The Happening comes without the serial code, now this. I'm done with buying those movies. We pay a little more for the convenience and this is what we get. I bet my bottom dollar that the Average Joe has no problem putting his pirated movies into the device.

This is a problem with the iPhone too. If you look on those forums hundreds of people (if not thousands) have been afected and there has been no early fix from Apple as yet.

My 3G phone is on 3.1.2 and I have an iPhone 4 on order. If if happens there I will be raging. Not just videos are affected, normally music is too.

It happened again. And what's worse, this time I didn't transfer any new videos to the iPad. I synced it at home to remove the TV shows I had already watched and when I get to work, bam, no videos.

What's even more weird, my music is gone, too.

This is beyong enfuriating. I bought this ****** thing to watch videos, and now I can't?

I as well have this problem. I synced my iPad last night came to work and my videos app shows "No Movies." Has any one figured this out?

Did you try to sync a movie you bought on iTunes or a Digital Copy that came with a movie?

I'm 100% certain at this point it's the Digital Copies that are causing the bug in my case. Last night, it was Terminator Salvation.

I haven't bought a video with a digital copy in a long while. Last night I added the tooth fairy which was purchased directly from iTunes on my pc. I'll try to remove the digital copy ones that I do have on there and see what happens.

Apparently trying to sync over and over again eventually makes the videos transfer normally.

I managed to get my Digital Copies into the iPad that way. Then I synced again to put some music into the thing, and the videos are gone once more.

I'm considering a fresh restore.

I unchecked sync music, movies and tv shows and hit sync. When I did this I let it remove everything and then rechecked movies. Seems to have worked for videos. Trying tv shows now to see what it does.

Well what I figured out that worked for me is this:

1) Uncheck sync music, movies, tv shows ( I don't have any podcasts or books synced to my iPad so I can't be sure if these have to be unchecked.)

2) Hit apply and let it sync removing all library files.

3) Recheck music, movies and tv shows. (Again no podcasts or books to check.)

4) Let it sync ALL my content again.

5) Tada I have all my content again.

I would assume plugging it in and having it start a sync again would again mess it up. I don't know exactly how the ipad stores its library files but if its anything like iTunes. Perhaps the file is being corrupted/mislabeled? I'm not sure. But this worked for me.

This will be a huge pain in the rear if we are going to have to do this every single time we want to add a file/remove a file/update and sync anything on the iPad. It took nearly two hours to complete the resync as I have the audio set to convert to a smaller bit rate.

Oh well hope this helps someone at apple fix the issue.

I have this problem as well. Videos appear and disappear at will. It's either all my videos or none. I dleted all the non-DVD digital copy videos and it made no difference. Incredibly frustrating.