Does Apple TV Autoplay?

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st3v1e Author

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Does Apple TV Autoplay?

Hi guys,

Just thinking of using Apple TV for an application in our tourist business.

Can anyone advise if Apple TV is able to be set to "Autoplay" movies files?

Thanks

Posted on Nov 5, 2011 4:42 PM

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Rudegar

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Nov 5, 2011 5:27 PM in response to st3v1e

autoplay often mean that a device auto start playing a media when it's inserted into the drive if the device

is what you are asking if the appletv can be set to repeat playing the same video clip over and over again

or is it that you want it to automaticly start playing some video clip when it startup ?

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st3v1e Author

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Nov 6, 2011 1:20 AM in response to Rudegar

Hi, thanks for the reply.

What I'd like to be able to do, is to have Apple TV play automatically as soon as it detects a movie has been dropped into the iTunes Movies folder - or similar.

Thanks

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Alley_Cat

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Nov 6, 2011 1:36 AM in response to st3v1e

No it won't do that.

I guess you might be able to make a Smart playlist of some kind to detect new content in itunes but don't know if it would work as you intended.

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Alley_Cat

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Nov 6, 2011 1:37 AM in response to st3v1e

No it won't do that.

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st3v1e Author

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Nov 6, 2011 8:56 PM in response to Alley_Cat

OK, thanks for the help, at least I won't be messing around with it for ages trying to get it to do something it can't.

Have a great week.

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