Video streaming of DRM movies, purchased from iTunes and other vendors, to any iOS device is not working.
iPad Air, iOS 8.2
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Video streaming of DRM movies, purchased from iTunes and other vendors. to any iOS device is not working: iTunes purchased videos and all DRM movies will not play on iOS 8 devices when streamed from any external hard drive with wireless capabilities (or streamed from other wireless devices). These movies are digitally protected and are normally send from the external drive and the corresponding app to the Safari browser to play (which works for all prior iOS versions). However, in iOS 8, Safari will no longer allow DRM movies to play. These movies will play when the video is transferred to the iPhone/iPad and played in the Apple's Video App or the corresponding App from the vendor.
You might ask, why do I even need this ability? We spend a lot of times "off the grid", the entire family owns Apple devices. iPad, iPod, iPhone 5 and 6, iMac and on and on. With that comes a boatload of data that not a single Apple device can hold but the iMac. Needless to say, that I am to taking the iMac "off the grid" but certainly would like to take my content with me.I do understand that Apple is trying to push iCloud, but again: This is "off the grid", there is no iCloud. Neither is that iCloud on those long international flights. With iOS 8, Apple has effectively taken my content away from me and I have not seen any comment or remark from anyone inside Apple that this will change.
Any comments, any knowledge out there that would be helpful not to trash a boatload of Apple devices and iTunes? Please, no workarounds like jailbreaking the devices, removing the DRM code, changing the file format and such. I only would like to play any of my content at any time of any of my Apple devices without having to prepare for hours for it. Apple was known for form and function, function is just about out of the window. Pun intended
i suspect many of those people who don't understand this issue do not have small children! I regularly take transcontinental flights with mine on planes without Wifi for 14 plus hours and, believe me, bringing content along makes the flight much smoother.
it's not ideal, but some have suggested that the content can be downloaded from the streaming device to the iOS device for playback. In my experience, the. Streaming device app merely stores the content locally in the app, so the problem remains. Does anyone know oF a device that downloads to the iOS somewhere that it can actually play back the DRM material?
THanks in advance.
I Am looking to stream myself via a Seagate. Have you tried to see if a shared family account works? The kids can watch movies I have purchased on their pads and Computers from iTunes . Just wondered if this would work over local supplied cloud. Maybe not due to permissions have to obtained from time of download... Trying to figure out a fix here.
Don
just got new iPad and Sandisk recomended when iPad was purchased.
it will not allow me to play my iTunes films from Sandisk drive.
there are instructions on the apple site how to transfer files
what is the point in Apple selling the drive on their site if it will not allow it to play my purchese from the drive?
Will be able to return a device recommend by Apple for a refund because it has been disabled by Apple .
it must be illegal to sell a product that does not function.
Just today the Genius at the Apple Store told me how wonderful the SanDisk Media Device was. How he played movies ffrom it all the time. He forgot to mention it wouldn't work with Apple devices playing Apple iTunes movies. I'll be returning it right away.
If I buy a DVD for $14, I play it on a variaty of players. It is only when I try to copy it I run into a problem. It is a file download and I can move it to a media drive. So the solution is to allow access to a drm incoded movie on an Apple product (iPhone or iPad) is registere to me. I am off the grid when I am on a flight and want to watch a movie that I bought and stored on a wireless media device so that I save memory on my Apple Device.
The concern of the person who originally posted it was what I and many others have reported. We are posting it here for solutions. Why we are off the grid and what you think we should be doing with our time was not the problem, so if reading a book brings you joy while off the grid, I am happy for you. The rest of us want to watch a downloaded movie purchased from iTunes on a wireless media device like a SanDisk Wireless meda drive and Apple changed the ability to do that after IOS 8. We need a solurion.
iTunes purchased videos and all DRM movies will not play on iOS 8 devices when streamed from an external drive (or streamed from other wireless devices). Any solution in sight?
