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iTunes 10.6.1 STILL won't play videos on Win7 64-bit

This has been a problem ever since iTunes was "enhanced" to eliminate the need for QuickTime - instead of no longer requiring same, I can't play videos in anything BUT.

I've been complaining about this for six months or more. When you start a video in iTunes, the audio starts but the video hangs and the progress bar at the bottom of the screen shows the '% complete' marker pinned to the RH side of the bar and the time is counting down on the RIGHT, not the left.

Is anyone else having this problem??

HP Pavilion dv8t, iOS 4

Posted on Apr 2, 2012 8:33 AM

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Blue5

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Aug 18, 2012 12:31 AM in response to scmibis

I've just done this and it STILL isn't working. It's horribly jerky (if it starts at all). Works fine when played directly through Quicktime or when streamed to an iPad/Macbook through home sharing. Anyone have any ideas?

scmibis Author

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Aug 18, 2012 6:13 PM in response to Blue5

Blue5, thanks for sharing. Everyone else, please let me know if you've tried slprescott's fix and gotten it to work.

In the meantime, I'll just keep ctrl-shifting. 😁

priapus_

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Aug 21, 2012 1:03 PM in response to Blue5

I had the same problem. The issue ended up being that I was trying to listen through a headset and it would not play the movie until I switched to playing through the computer speakers. It took hours to figure that out, and I'm still confused by the fix but at least now I can finally watch this season of Breaking Bad....yay.

scmibis Author

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Aug 21, 2012 1:05 PM in response to priapus_

Wish I could say the same, but for me the problem had nothing to do with the output mode.

That said, many thanks for responding. 🙂

Sep 19, 2012 8:58 PM in response to scmibis

I'm not sure if this will help but I have been having video playback issues and found this post in my scearhes. I came across another post on another site that talked about settings in Quicktime via the control panel. So I went into the control panel and started looking for something that might be affecting the playback. Your postings about DirectX pointed me in the right direction. This worked for me on my Win Xp PC.

Control Panel, QuickTime, Advanced, Uncheck "Enable Direct3D video acceleration", OK

I hope this works for you. Without this post I would have most likely never found this fix.

Thanks,

Dave

hshirl

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Sep 22, 2012 11:39 AM in response to DaveInMelbourne

This worked for me. Thank you!

Sep 24, 2012 12:32 AM in response to scmibis

Wel it appears I found the solution... I also couldnt play vids on my Itunes.. The thing was that the video I was trying to play was located in Drive (F:) and itunes was installed in Drive(C:) ... So i just moved the Video from drive (F:) to Drive (C:) and Voilaaa! Everything worked ... I guess itunes doesnt accept or wont play videos from anywhere but from where its installed ... In my case in Drive (C:)

Hope this Helps! Good Day all! 🙂

Oct 30, 2012 12:12 AM in response to DaveInMelbourne

Dave, just to let you know... This worked for me! I knew it had to be something simple, but that was definitely not in my repetoire of possible things to try. Thanks so much! 🙂

DDownes

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Nov 11, 2012 8:07 PM in response to DaveInMelbourne

Daveinmelbourne - THANK YOU!! I have not been able to watch any video content for months and you have just solved my problem!! YAY !!! 🙂

iTunes 10.6.1 STILL won't play videos on Win7 64-bit