Just updated to 4.4.2, now cannot play any videos.

I unplugged the Apple TV that was barked on 4.4.2, restarted my other Apple TV on 4.3 and restarted iTunes, and no luck. The other Apple TV that was never updated is also not working, and it has the same spinning ball problem.

home sharing video streaming on any type of content results in spinning gear. tested on apple tv 2 with firmware 4.3 & 4.4.2. have tried reboots and restore with no success.

I couldn't access iTunes using appletv all evening even BEFORE updating the software. still can't watch my purchased shows!

I have the same problems.

A software update was available which I installed but had to reset all my credentials for the store etc. I played a tv show from my purchased items. It then wanted to do another update which finished and when I checked the version it was 4.4.2. I played a rental movie which initially indicated I was not authorised to play but on the second attempt it played. I have no idea what the intermediate software version was. However this time the settings were left alone. When I attempted to stream a downloaded TV Show from my computer I can now no longer stream content from my computer or iTunes. I can set my computer to Airplay to the ATV and it will show the TV Show from the computer using the ATV.

I have a second ATV which I have not updated yet. I will check to see if this is behaving in the same way with an older release.

The updated ATV will play music and display photos from my computer.

I suspect that iTunes is not authorising the ATV to play the content properly. This seems to be part of Apples many many problems with their iTunes authorisation process.

I must admit to not being very impressed with ATV 2, finding I had far less issues with the first iteration of this product. I can see me putting the old ones back into my system.

If anyone finds out whether this is a temporary iTunes issue or a ATV software issue, I would be grateful to hear from them. Meanwhile it is back to my Roku box and Amazon's Video on Demand which seems to be working fine (with no problems in the last year or so of use) and which has all the same TV programs I watch.

Having same issues. I can play netflix and such but no Itunes videos. Very frustrating!! Love my Apple TV 2

I updated yesterday and was able to watch a show from my shared library (yes a tv show purchased from the store) but today I can only listen to music or play music videos. TV shows and movies do not work, they sit with an an endless spinning wheel. I tried rebooting and restarting the box, the computer and the router.

Between making me set up my AppleTV from scratch and then refusing to play any TV shows or Movies, this update has not been an improvement.

OK, I can confirm that video will start playing eventually if you leave it alone with the spinner going. I was also able to seek through to the end of the movie with no significant delay. Tried another movie and again had wait a long time for it to start playing. Being a nerd, I decided to test the time it took to start playing two 720p HD movies with different total playing time to see if there was a difference. Strangely, there was no significant difference. Here is the data:

Movie 1 - 2 hrs, 1 minute- 2.52 GB file size - 3 minutes 59 seconds

Movie 2 - 0 hrs, 36 minutes - 944 MB file size - 4 minutes 1 second

So, based on this "extensive testing" (yes, joking here) something appears to be causing a 4 minute delay in starting a movie, regardless of the movie size.

Video fail here as well. I can still stream music, but that's it. I'm attempting a restore, but I'm guessing that won't help.

I loved this product for the first year, but over the past couple of months it's become buggy as ****. Bad update after bad update. Starting to consider thinking really different (ie Roku/Amazon/Boxee, and definitely won't but any rumored Apple branded television until several generations in - if ever.

Same thing happened to me ... It wasn't working BEFORE I updated the firmware ... now it still doesn't work (except for Music and the Movie Trailers) ... those work.

However, I must add that this is the first real AppleTV v.2 problem that I have had since I bought it when it was first released last year

Heh. Didn't realize the software would censor " h, e, double hockey sticks".

Same issue here on two Apple TVs after updating to 4.2.2, please fix this ASAP, no videos to stream is bad.

Same problem here. I have a second ATV that I did not update to 4.4.2 and it is still working fine. I hope they fix this issue soon!

I just timed an episode of Stella (Comedy Central, 25m9s long) for myself: 4 minutes, 8 seconds. Stopping, and then resuming, took 3 minutes, 57 seconds.

This ~4min delay before playing seems consistent. Question is, why? The first thing that pops into mind is that there's some call that's simply timing out. A delay of equal time, regardless of file size/program length, sounds like something that's occuring before actual file data access.

Whether it is a network or a local protocol call, is another question. Or not, since this is all conjecture.

I'm having the exact same issue here. I can see everyone starts having this problem about a couple of hours ago, just like myself. Everything was working great a few hours back.

Right now only library video streaming is down. Although I have to admit, I got one video streaming working after prolonged wait on the spinning wheel! It seems something is wrong with Apple server. But how can this be dependent on server side? BTW, another video streaming is working now as I typed (prolonged spinning wheel as well).

What gives?

ANYONE FROM APPLE GOING TO CHIME IN??? Of course mine is doing the same, and it even allowed me to pay for a TV show and it billed me, but god forbid i can actually watch the **** show!

Test your **** software on your low end products before you just push it out.