I performed restarts of all our hardware and still had no luck. but when I tried to locate it on our family room Apple TV it was missing. I returned to my Mac to make sure everything was OK and found it available on my computer. Where I caught this was when I tried to watch a movie in our family room Apple TV device and a particular title didn't show up. What's really strange is that I can browse through the titles using the App and everything looks OK on my Mac. My Apple purchases are still secure, but my older library of DVD tiles that I own has shrunk to about 1/3 of its original size. Since upgrading my system from iTunes to Apple TV my video library has mysteriously begun to vanish over time. The Grid view after several weeks is a total mess.Īpple TV Library issues. The show will display several times and at the end. Why I care or go thru the process of reassigning the year is that if I don’t then the Grid view gets scrambled i.e. When I look at the TV Library is list view everything is in sequence and the season number is correct. All the other meta data elements are fine. Could it be the Season number assigned by Subler? But a 2 is a 2 right. What I do to remedy this is get the media info within the TV app for the mp4 file delete the Season info, close the get info and then repeat the get info assign the same season number I just deleted and everything is as it should be. The issue I have is that the new episode is not truly part of the existing Season. I drag new episodes from the NAS to the TV app while it is in GRID View and the link is made. The files are linked to the shared NAS directory. I have the media Folder set at /Macintosh HD/Users/bryanrivard/Movies/TV/Media. Condor) under the major directory TV Shows. They are stored in the traditional Directory structure one directory per Show (ex. I store the mp4 files on a NAS (WD EX2 Ultra) using a Shared “Media Folder”. For the TV files (TV Show, Tv Eposide #, Tv Episode ID, TV Season, Comments, Description, Long Description and Series Description). The source for the meta data is not known other than Subler. (This combined with the BIOS power setting will make sure the iTunes "Server" will reboot and iTunes will launch if there is a power failure.I use Subler (Version 1.7.5) to convert acquired mkv files to mp4 and assign meta data to those files. Once iTunes is installed I make sure iTunes is set to automatically launch at startup. (Some older PCs don't have this ability). I make a power setting change in the BIOS to automatically restart the PC if there is a power outage. I set Power Settings in W7 for high performance so the computer will never sleep. If I ever want to go on vacation I can unplug the external HD and take my whole mvoie collection with me and it fits in a back pack.īasically you take a PC and install the OS (I suggest Windows 7) virus protection (make sure to exempt iTunes and itunes files) and set the computer to automatically update. I prefer using the external HD because I store all the movie files on this drive. I use an older PC with a 3TB external HD attached (USB 2.0). If you quit iTunes on the "server" there will be no media streamed. *NOTE: For this to work the iTunes software on the server must be open and running at all times. My advice is find whatever setup best fits your setup.įor example purposes I will be using the original "Friday The 13th" (1980) throughout this guide. Also one could use internal drives instead of external drives, I use an external for the ability to take everything with me with ease. They do the ripping and meta tag editing right on the server. Some of my friends set their servers up with a head and a really fast Optic Drive. I use a Macbook Pro for ripping and Meta Tagging and Microsoft Remote Desktop to remote into the "server". In My scenario my "server" is headless (no monitor) and is tucked away in the spare bedroom. This method uses free software and only requires an Apple ID and devices that can run iTunes software or connect to iTunes home sharing (iPads, iPhones, Macs, PCs, Apple TV). This method allows for not only playback of digitally "ripped" DVDs but also playback of movies purchased in the iTunes Store, TV shows purchased in the iTunes store, and music ripped from your own cds, mp3s, or songs purchased in the iTunes store. This is a guide to setup a streaming solution for all those DVDs laying around the house that plays nicely with the Apple Eco System.
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