Apple TV keeps telling me to Authorize my computer.

Same problem here. Went to Play my digital copy of Fast & Furious, and it kept telling my to authorize my computer. Eventhough the ATV2 & desktop were already authorized and had been watching over DRM'd things that day.

I could stream to my ipad/iphone withouth issue.

Found this thread via TUAW

beverlyfromnew rochelle wrote:

I have had the same problem for a couple of days, same error message.

The following did not solve the problem:

Authorizing and De-Authorizing my computer

Toggling Home Sharing off and on.

Signing in and out of my iTunes account on my gen 2 Apple TV

What worked: my iTunes media folders are organized, for example each movie has a separate folder. I opened the folders and found that some were missing media files (probably due to interrupted Apple TV gen 1 sync ages ago). When I double clicked such a movie in iTunes, iTunes identified it as a listing with a missing media file and marked it with an exclamation mark. It asked me if I wanted it to check for other missing files in my media folder. It found more and identified them with exclamation marks. I then unckecked all items in my iTunes list with exclamation marks. I can now stream all content from iTunes to Apple TV gen 2, no more authorization errors.

I hope this works for you too.

It would have been helpful if the error has said "Streaming via Home Sharing will not work until you uncheck items listed in iTunes that have missing media files" rather than a red herring about authorization and DRM.

None of the above worked for me. Plus I have no missing media files.

Ok I just noticed something "odd"

I keep my iTunes media in D:\iTunes as my D drive is a 6TB raid array (I have over 4TB in iTunes media).

iTunes has always kept things organized and in D:\iTunes I see the typical folders: movies, music, tv shows, downloads, automatically add to itunes, podcats, etc

However, a bit ago I noticed a few music folders in the d:\iTunes folder which was odd. I went into iTunes, found those songs, and they were located in that odd place.

I then unchecked and RE checked the organize library option. Now iTunes is really doing something WEIRD.

It's MOVING all my music... OUT of all of the music subfolder and placing them ALL into d:\iTunes. So now I'm see all my music subfolders on the same level as TV shows, movies, etc...

As soon as it's finished, I'll see if my ATV2 can stream. Why iTunes suddenly wants my music in a new place is beyond me... 1) It's annoying as it should be under the MUSIC folder 2) This must be something to do with iTunes Match that's coming up

That fixed it! All my music, tv shows, movies, etc are now streaming.

Now to do that to my other itunes computer.

TBH this is rediculous that things like this have to suddently be done

Don't do anything. I have done nothing and all is working again. It was an Apple server problem.

Well Like most here in this thread I had the same issue with authorization all weekend and tried many of the same "solutions" with no positive results. As of this morning though the problem seemed to be resolved. As indicated by a few it was a problem on Apples backend and they seemed to of fixed it. My only concern is the fact that Apples support seemed oblivious to the whole problem and gave inappropriate resolutions to the problem. All's well that ends well I guess. Thanks for all the insights to the problem everyone, originally I thought it was just me!

FIxed for me too. But I had to unauthorize and authorize my computer again before be able to use my library from my @TV

Not fixed for everyone! For me, the problem is now worse. Not only can I not see purchased content via AppleTV, I can't share my library at all, not even over AirPlay.

I was so excited to buy the AppleTV, but now I can't think of a hardware purchase I regret more than this. Total chaos, complete disappointment.

As of 7AM Pacific this morning, I was back to normal. Scanning the thread, I think there could be several issues at play here, but it seems that most of us were caught in a failure of the serverside HDCP authentication. Maybe someone kicked out the plug on the way out the door Friday afternoon.

Still not working for me. Anybody else still having issues?

to CHad Highes 1, you obviously have home sharing turned off, or something like that. make sure that in your itunes, home sharing is turned on. make sure that in your apple tv settings, that home sharing is also turned on. make sure that youre itunes libary and atv are signed into the same itunes store account

Chad Hughes1 wrote:

As of 7AM Pacific this morning, I was back to normal. Scanning the thread, I think there could be several issues at play here, but it seems that most of us were caught in a failure of the serverside HDCP authentication. Maybe someone kicked out the plug on the way out the door Friday afternoon.

Same here, although I couldn't test until lunch time today (noon easter). Everything working fine now, I changed nothing on my end.

Happy to say that finally whatever solution Apple implemented has trickled down to my house. My ATV2 and Homesharing seem to be normal.

As soon as the fresh baked "crow" casserole is done, I'll serve myself up a plate.

Same here. Glad to know they fixed it. Just wish they had some weekend support! 😉

Haveing same problem, I am assuming it is an Apple issue. AirPlay works fine. Movies can be watched that way