Apple TV 4K 14.3 No longer plays music vids full screen

Hello Gene Clifford,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities! We understand you are experiencing some issues playing back video from your Mac on your Apple TV. We are happy to help provide some guidance.

You mentioned that you noticed these issues start happening after you updated your Apple TV tvOS version. Did you also get a chance to make sure that your Mac is running the latest macOS version as well? We have some great steps that go over troubleshooting AirPlay when streaming media from your Mac and other devices in this helpful resource:

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Hey there Gene Clifford,

Thanks for reaching back out and providing that clarification. Since this is using home sharing, we want to make sure that everything is set up properly to share. Take a look to make sure everything is set up properly for Home Sharing as outlined here:

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Same issue here as well. When using home streaming and the Computer App native in Apple TV, music videos used to play full screen. With the new update, music videos now play on a very small (and annoying) screen version and there are no settings to revert this — an awful user experience.

Please fix this issue in the upcoming Apple TV release.

Thank you,

Same here. I can press the menu button and then push the middle of the touch pad to get it to full screen, but come on, who thought this was a necessary option? It defeats the purpose of the playlist that I have to interact with the remote after every video. I might have to change my music videos to TV episodes now just so I can easily watch them in fullscreen. I sadly can't recall the last time I watched videos, but it was probably before the upgrade since I didn't have them running during the kids' school break.

The only 'fix' I have found is changing music videos to a TV show (make sure to give the TV Series a name before clicking okay). You an then build TV playlists, but its a solution that defeats the purpose. I don't know why someone thought displaying music videos at 1/9 normal size unless you click on them was a good idea.

I have thousands of music videos and streaming them in other rooms is the only reason I have a necessity for appetv in the first place. This is extremely annoying. You’ve already ruined iTunes, quit messing with the products that you got right.

I agree, having the same issue. Changing my music video's to movies is not a option because I have a large movies library also. This will really mess up my smart playlist, plus at times I am working in the garage and have one of my music video playlist playing I would hate for it to throw a movie in the mix. This has been working without flaw for 10+ years, now all of a sudden I take a update and my videos default to a window instead of playing full screen.......

I'm seeing this issue on my Apple TV 4 and Apple TV 4K, both running tvOS 14.3.

My Apple TV 3 (v7.6.2) is not experiencing this issue.

It's clearly a tvOS 14.3 bug/feature, that needs to be fixed or given the option to disable.

You're AppleTV 3 still does playlists? Mine stopped quite some time ago, much to my kids' chagrin. Of course now I find myself wondering if they hadn't swapped them around and were trying to use an AppleTV 2.

Yes, the Apple TV 3 (software version 7.6.2) still plays music video playlists (via the "Computers" app, using Home Sharing connected to a Win 10 PC running iTunes).

It's practically all I use it for.

Apple Team, Please fix. I have the same issue with music videos playing only in a small box in the center of my TV. I am using an Apple TV A1625 streaming from a Mac Mini that holds my music library and thousands of music videos. As others on this chain have described—it has worked flawlessly for years sliding from one video to the next on random. Now with the last Apple TV update (14.3-18K561) it’s broken. Happy hour is ruined. Please patch.

BgonzoATX

I'm experiencing the exact problems. My videos played great for years using My computer on apple tv. Also, the cloud will not upload these videos so you can't play from the new Music app on Apple TV. Please fix this

I have had exactly the same issue for the same period of time.

I play music videos I have downloaded from various sources, from an itunes playlist via my pc , home-shared to my apple TV. linked to my TV.

After an update most of my music videos play as illustrated... in a small box in the centre of the screen. It's almost as if the videos are playing in 'preview mode'. I can get them to play full screen individually by pressing menu then play...but that's hardly a solution!

It is unbelievably annoying and despite the fact the issue was raised over a month ago Apple have not offered any explanation or solution. Cmon Apple, deal with this!