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Mar 11, 2014 8:30 AM in response to Scott Newmanby twhiston,Scott I too updated to IOS7.1 to find no fix.
But I am using a OSX app "Air Media Server" that stream Video, pictures and music to iphones and ipads. Works great. I installed it on my server where all my movies are, I pointed it at the folder the movies are in , ( Same folder as the iTunes home share is using ). Costs about $5.The ipad app is free. It is called "Media Center" http://www.airmediacenter.com . I still need itunes and home sharing to watch my movies on my Apple TV's, but this streaming server app takes care of my iPads.
Apple is going down hill. The one thing they were good at was making all their stuff work together.
There is this problem AND also "Airdrop" which does not work from Mac's to ipads. FYI " Instashare " works well between Mac to ipads.
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Mar 11, 2014 10:01 AM in response to twhistonby Scott Newman,Thanks for the app suggestion. I've actually owned an app (FileBrowser) for a long time that works for video streaming; however, it doesn't remember where I stopped when viewing a video. Otherwise it works fine.
I'm going to check out Air Media Center, however.
As for Apple, why add a feature (home sharing videos) that simply doesn't work for most people?
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Mar 15, 2014 2:16 AM in response to MiataMike1by Campbeh,I recently bought two iPads for me and my wife, who has hundreds of videos. I was shocked to learn of this basic blunder by Apple and cannot believe they can't do a simple fix by restoring a simple alphabetical list view option. We are seriously considering ditching the iPads and going to a (much cheaper) android platform.
As a simple interim fix, could Apple not simply allow the viewing and alphabetical sorting of videos from the general>usage>Storage>videos>show all function? As you can delete videos from here it should be simple to add a play button and allow alphabetical sorting.
As I consider this a major flaw, what is wrong with Apple as this thread has been going on for yonks. We should not have to play around renaming hundreds of videos in iTunes and/ or adding graphics then re-synching.
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Mar 15, 2014 5:02 AM in response to MiataMike1by joeyinoz,Yes, a very annoying feature of the ios7.x update. However, I followed the suggestion of one of the other posts and found online artwork for all my movies. Now it looks awesome. Still, an obvious bug that needs to be fixed.
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Mar 15, 2014 5:09 AM in response to joeyinozby igirl1,joeyinoz wrote:
I followed the suggestion of one of the other posts and found online artwork for all my movies
Where? - Does it work for Apple TV as well?
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Mar 15, 2014 8:57 AM in response to igirl1by MiataMike1,Artwork can be found and loaded under Windows by:
- going to http://images.google.com
- search for <movie name> MOVIE POSTER
- click on the thumbnail you like
- right-click the big image and click on SAVE IMAGE AS
- bring up iTunes
- right-click the movie in iTunes and click on GET INFO
- select the ARTWORK tab
- click the ADD button
- select the file you just downloaded from Google
It's a PITA but once it's done it's done.
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Mar 15, 2014 9:41 AM in response to MiataMike1by igirl1,MiataMike1 wrote:
Artwork can be found and loaded under Windows by:
- going to http://images.google.com
- search for <movie name> MOVIE POSTER
- click on the thumbnail you like
- right-click the big image and click on SAVE IMAGE AS
- bring up iTunes
- right-click the movie in iTunes and click on GET INFO
- select the ARTWORK tab
- click the ADD button
- select the file you just downloaded from Google
It's a PITA but once it's done it's done.
I was looking for a batch way to do it -
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Mar 16, 2014 11:49 AM in response to MiataMike1by Zenith ,I have found a workaround by changing file type to "music video." This will work when using home sharing. The files will show up in iphone under videos app>home sharing>music videos as a list.
It makes the appleTV a little more clumsy, they show up under music>music videos>all
Note that the files will move in itunes to music>music videos. I thought itunes had deleted them all when I did a batch change!
Hope this helps.
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Apr 1, 2014 8:56 PM in response to MiataMike1by callmetheduke,Zenith
Just figured the same thing out. effing annoying though
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Apr 2, 2014 7:26 AM in response to callmethedukeby Mr_mux,Yeah, almost works. Except that there is no way deal with the chapters of the video.
For example if you have the entire live concert of an artist, the 'music video' options assumes it is a single.
Apparently Apple doesn't believe that anyone watches an entire video on a portable device.
Thanks for the info, but still have to go back to using the JPG idea with an icon.
My next phone will be a galaxy.
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Apr 22, 2014 8:06 PM in response to MiataMike1by Oxyd75,Moving to Plex and installed the Plex App...
I run both iTunes and Plex on my Mac Mini... iTunes for my Apple TV and Plex Server for my iPad and iPhone
I have Plex scan my iTunes library, wish Apple would make iTunes more like Plex!
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Apr 22, 2014 8:38 PM in response to MiataMike1by bkkrocks,i'm pretty sure someone has mentioned it but thought i'd add it again since this is a long thread: not perfect but pretty good and it's free. i'm talking MoliPlayer:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moliplayer-free-movie-music/id488691300?mt=8
your playlist will show the title of the video, the length, whether it's a new addition, if you've watched some of the video, it'll tell you how much of it you've watched, it'll start playing where you stopped, etc.
very good for a free app. i've been using it for months now and have never had a problem with it. i've given up on apple fixing this obvious flaw...
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May 2, 2014 5:01 AM in response to MiataMike1by Brian Williams2,I really do not like to bash Apple, but being the best does not mean perfect. I just discovered that Apple is consistently stupid on this issue. Just as there is no name/title information for Films (Video) on the iPad, as has been the theme here, the same problem exists in iBooks. I've some user manuals that were broken down into chapter/topic PDFs - in other words, 20 or so PDF documents represents the whole manual. Put those into iBooks (OS X) and make a 'Collection' of them. Go to iTunes, attach the iPad, sellect the manual documents for sync, sync, and whoa - the Collections identifier isn't evident, and the pdfs themselves without document title. I had added several manuals, each with multiple PDFs, thinking that they would retain their Collection bundling, but it appears not. Yes, I have Sync Collections set ON on the ipad, but to no evident effect.
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May 2, 2014 5:13 AM in response to Brian Williams2by Brian Williams2,Further to this: I just realized that in iBooks (OS X), when a Collection is selected, the documents wihin the collection are presented as first page images only as well. This issue of images without document/file/film name seems a very broad problem.
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May 2, 2014 10:22 PM in response to Brian Williams2by David Shanahan,That's not what I get with iBooks on OS X, it always shows me the title and author name beneath the cover image. This applies to both books purchased in the iBooks Store and other epub books sideloaded into iBooks (if they have the correct internal epub tags set with this info). It does this when books are displayed by any of the sort tabs in iBooks - All Books, Collections, Authors, Categories. List of course simply lists the books (if only the Videos app had this option!) but it does include the title and author info as you'd expect.
What version of iBooks are you using? 1.0.1?