TV App on Mac refuses to play certain clips from the beginning

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TV App on Mac refuses to play certain clips from the beginning

With certain clips I've imported into the TV app on Mac, each time the file is double-clicked to play it, it always starts from some place other than the beginning (like :47, for instance).

This is not due to the "Remember playback position" being toggled on; the video will always start at :47, with this option selected or not.

If, once the video has started playing at :47, I manually scrub back to the beginning, it will play normally from the beginning; it will just never start at the beginning. I can't find any setting that would be causing this.

Mac mini (M1, 2020)

Posted on Feb 27, 2024 11:59 AM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Feb 27, 2024 10:25 PM in response to Donnie Ashworth

To find out if it's system wide or user specific, try this...

Open System Preferences>Users & Groups, unlock the lock, click on the little plus icon, make a new admin account, log out & into the new account.

Does it work in the new account?

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Answer 2

Feb 28, 2024 7:43 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanks for the response. Rather than create a new user, I did something similar—transferred the file to a different Mac with a different user. When added to the TV app there, it does the exact same thing. So it must be something specific to that video, maybe some kind of metadata, though I can't figure out what it would be.

The odd thing is, when played with the Quicktime app, it starts from the beginning as normal. Only when it is imported into the Mac TV app does the problem occur.

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BDAqua

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Feb 28, 2024 8:22 PM in response to Donnie Ashworth

Well, that leaves me at a loss as to what to do to fix it, sorry.

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TV App on Mac refuses to play certain clips from the beginning

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