Turn on Loop for a Movie on Apple TV 2

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Turn on Loop for a Movie on Apple TV 2

Okay, here is my problem, it's quite simple. I have a couple of ATV 1s and I've always used the iPhone or iPad remote app to enable looping on movies. For some reason, that has been disabled in either the new version of the Remote app or the new ATV, I can't figure out exactly which. In any case, I just want to turn on looping for a movie, not a video playlist, but one single movie (I just want it to continuously loop). I used to click the screen and turn on the loop button, exactly like playing a song on the iPod app, but that option is just gone now. In some apps, such as Keynote or iMovie, I can turn on "Loop" when exporting or using the Share function, but that's not always an option in some programs.

I've read some posts and articles that state if you just open the movie in QuickTime X, turn on Loop, and then save the file in the same format it will be respected by ATV, that doesn't seem to be the case. Does anyone know a workaround for this? Any help would be much appreciated!

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Posted on Feb 10, 2011 2:28 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 7, 2011 10:36 PM in response to Cornelius Qualley

Still having the same issue...

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Answer 2

Norrism

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Mar 8, 2011 7:34 AM in response to Cornelius Qualley

I am having this issue as well. This is such a simple thing that Apple should have implemented from the start... and the whole "resave with looping enabled" doesn't do a thing for me. Any ideas?

-Matt

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Chenks

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Mar 8, 2011 7:38 AM in response to Norrism

the appletv offers no built-in support for doing this, so your only solution is to amend the video file to force it to loop.

you could, of course, create a playlist with multiple copies of the file, and then play the playlist.

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Mar 8, 2011 9:32 AM in response to Chenks

That's part of what I'm asking, how do you "amend the video file to force it to loop"? I've tried opening the file, turning on looping, and saving it but that has no effect. Any suggestions? Also, I've thought of the playlist option but I play a 2 minute video on loop for about 12 hours a day, so I'd have to add the video 360 times which isn't really practical.

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Chenks

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Mar 8, 2011 9:33 AM in response to Cornelius Qualley

Cornelius Qualley wrote:
That's part of what I'm asking, how do you "amend the video file to force it to loop"? I've tried opening the file, turning on looping, and saving it but that has no effect. Any suggestions?

no idea, i've never done it myself, but i'm sure it has been mentioned many times before in here.
maybe a search thru the forums will give you the answer.

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Answer 6

Mar 8, 2011 9:43 AM in response to Chenks

I've already searched quite a bit for the answer but haven't been able to find anything. The only solution I've heard was what I previously posted and that just doesn't work. Thanks anyway, if anyone else has any suggestions I would appreciate it!

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Mar 8, 2011 10:25 AM in response to Cornelius Qualley

I'm not really sure whether looping videos still work on the Apple TV, they have done and then they haven't and then they have and I don't really know what the current position is.

You can add looping to a video in any application that supports it, QT Pro for example.

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Mar 8, 2011 11:04 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill wrote:
I'm not really sure whether looping videos still work on the Apple TV, they have done and then they haven't and then they have and I don't really know what the current position is.

You can add looping to a video in any application that supports it, QT Pro for example.

How can you add looping to a video in an application that supports it such as QT Pro? The only documentation that I've read states what I previously wrote, and that doesn't seem to work.

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Answer 9

Apr 8, 2011 7:11 PM in response to Cornelius Qualley

It can be done

I found the solution here: http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Loop

The second part is for the new black Apple TV, and must be read very very carefully not to miss a single step.

And it works

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Answer 10

Jan 3, 2014 2:00 PM in response to plopthegeek

Thanks! it worked just fine, nice work around.

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Answer 11

Mar 21, 2015 12:09 PM in response to plopthegeek

Great find - This would be a number +1 feature request for Apple. Just the potential of being able to loop videos is great for public display areas. Another way I have found it to be able to work is have an iPad with Airplay and put the iPad in display mode.

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