iPhone won't sync movies?
Okay, not only am I having issues with extremely short battery life, but now, my iPhone refuses to sync movies, even though they're checked.
Yes, I've made sure there's plenty of room on the iPhone. Yes, I've deselected and selected various movies and clicked "Apply." Yes, I've even restored the original settings on my iPhone.
No luck, whatsoever. This didn't happen prior to the update. However, one small movie will sync with no problem. All the others won't. That's even stranger.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? Or did I find a new bug? Thanks!
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Yes, I've made sure there's plenty of room on the iPhone. Yes, I've deselected and selected various movies and clicked "Apply." Yes, I've even restored the original settings on my iPhone.
No luck, whatsoever. This didn't happen prior to the update. However, one small movie will sync with no problem. All the others won't. That's even stranger.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? Or did I find a new bug? Thanks!
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Okay, not only am I having issues with extremely short battery life, but now, my iPhone refuses to sync movies, even though they're checked.
Yes, I've made sure there's plenty of room on the iPhone. Yes, I've deselected and selected various movies and clicked "Apply." Yes, I've even restored the original settings on my iPhone.
No luck, whatsoever. This didn't happen prior to the update. However, one small movie will sync with no problem. All the others won't. That's even stranger.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? Or did I find a new bug? Thanks!
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You didn't happen to accidently delete the movie file from your HD did you? I did that once while cleaning up some space. It would still show in iTunes.
Also! Click on the movie in iTunes and see if it will play. I'm willing to bet that it wants you to "Sign In" to the iTunes Music Store in order to "Authorize" playback on that device. That happened to me while making ringtones. They would be in iTunes, checked and ready to go but would not sync. I had to authorize the file first by trying to play it on the computer and then it would sync without a problem.
Try that and let me know what you come up with.
My movies have never synced properly. It seems to arbitrarily choose some to sync and some to ignore (ie it's not just tv shows or movies). I suppose I'll have to call support...
Yes, it seems very random.
I did discover one workaround, but it takes a long time.
Now, remember... before the recent firmware update, all my imported video files (all MP4s) synced perfectly with my iPhone. I just selected which one I wanted from the Movies list. Now, they won't sync at all... unless I use the "Convert to iPod" function. It then creates a new M4V file that the the iPhone will recognize. However, it already takes several hours for me to convert each AVI file to an MP4 that iTunes will recognize, only to have to go through one more conversion process for the iPhone to sync what it used to sync before with no problem.
I think the update broke something.
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My movies have never synced properly. It seems to arbitrarily choose some to sync and some to ignore (ie it's not just tv shows or movies). I suppose I'll have to call support...
Update: if you ctrl-click on the video in iTunes and select "Convert Selection for iPod", iTunes will convert the file to a .m4v and make it compatible with the iPhone. Seems like they should notify you when you try to sync an incompatible video, or just gray out the incompatible ones in the list of movies to sync.
Update: if you ctrl-click on the video in iTunes and select "Convert Selection for iPod", iTunes will convert the file to a .m4v and make it compatible with the iPhone. Seems like they should notify you when you try to sync an incompatible video, or just gray out the incompatible ones in the list of movies to sync.
Whoops, you beat me to it
Update: if you ctrl-click on the video in iTunes and select "Convert Selection for iPod", iTunes will convert the file to a .m4v and make it compatible with the iPhone. Seems like they should notify you when you try to sync an incompatible video, or just gray out the incompatible ones in the list of movies to sync.
I can't speak for anyone else, but the strange thing is... all my files were compatible and synced to the iPhone prior to the update. Now almost all of them won't.
Yet, there are a handful of MP4s that still will. So there's no rhyme or reason to it.
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Okay, not only am I having issues with extremely short battery life, but now, my iPhone refuses to sync movies, even though they're checked.
Yes, I've made sure there's plenty of room on the iPhone. Yes, I've deselected and selected various movies and clicked "Apply." Yes, I've even restored the original settings on my iPhone.
No luck, whatsoever. This didn't happen prior to the update. However, one small movie will sync with no problem. All the others won't. That's even stranger.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? Or did I find a new bug? Thanks!
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Copying Video Files to the iPhone:
By default in v2.0, the capability to drag and drop files directly to the iPhone is disabled. This capability was enabled by default prior to v2.0. In order to copy video to the iPhone, I had to select the check box for "Manually Manage Music and Videos" under the Summary tab in the iTunes sync settings. The option wasn't there until I upgraded iTunes (currently using v7.7.1.11) and I hadn't bothered to mess with it because I expected things to stay the way I had them set up. I am now able to manually drag and drop movies to the phone and they play fine. If I deselect the check box for "Manually Manage Music and Videos", all of the content I added manually will be automatically removed from the iPhone.
Although I can play video files, they are still not displayed under the Movies section under the Video tab in iTunes sync settings. This includes video files from podcasts and movie trailers downloaded from apple.com.
Push = Reduced Battery Life
The email "Push" and "Fetch" options also changed in v2.0. "Push" is enabled by default, which ignores the manually "Fetch" settings and reduces battery life because the phone is accessing the network every time new mail is received at the mail server. "Push" must be disabled first in order to activate the manual "Fetch" settings. This way, email is downloaded only when the operator checks for email manually.
More information is available in the iPhone User Guide
Update: if you ctrl-click on the video in iTunes and select "Convert Selection for iPod", iTunes will convert the file to a .m4v and make it compatible with the iPhone. Seems like they should notify you when you try to sync an incompatible video, or just gray out the incompatible ones in the list of movies to sync.
Thank you guys for finding the answer. Just for reference: the way to do this in windows is to highlight the video files and go to Advanced>Create iPod or iPhone Version.
Thank you guys for finding the answer. Just for reference: the way to do this in windows is to highlight the video files and go to Advanced>Create iPod or iPhone Version.
Just wanted to say thanks to you Jmanak I also use windows and could not get movies downloaded.
Cheers
My other iPhone, an old Edge phone has no issues sync'ing.
Thanks
QUOTE=cleanburn;1299626]Copying Video Files to the iPhone:
By default in v2.0, the capability to drag and drop files directly to the iPhone is disabled. This capability was enabled by default prior to v2.0. In order to copy video to the iPhone, I had to select the check box for "Manually Manage Music and Videos" under the Summary tab in the iTunes sync settings. The option wasn't there until I upgraded iTunes (currently using v7.7.1.11) and I hadn't bothered to mess with it because I expected things to stay the way I had them set up. I am now able to manually drag and drop movies to the phone and they play fine. If I deselect the check box for "Manually Manage Music and Videos", all of the content I added manually will be automatically removed from the iPhone.
Although I can play video files, they are still not displayed under the Movies section under the Video tab in iTunes sync settings. This includes video files from podcasts and movie trailers downloaded from apple.com.
Push = Reduced Battery Life
The email "Push" and "Fetch" options also changed in v2.0. "Push" is enabled by default, which ignores the manually "Fetch" settings and reduces battery life because the phone is accessing the network every time new mail is received at the mail server. "Push" must be disabled first in order to activate the manual "Fetch" settings. This way, email is downloaded only when the operator checks for email manually.
More information is available in the iPhone User Guide[/QUOTE]
Hi, I'm reading all these great responses but I still can't get movies to sync. In iTunes under "Advanced" the "Create iPhone version" is grayed out. I can't seem to get this to change. Any ideas on how to do this?
My other iPhone, an old Edge phone has no issues sync'ing.
Thanks
QUOTE=cleanburn;1299626]Copying Video Files to the iPhone:
By default in v2.0, the capability to drag and drop files directly to the iPhone is disabled. This capability was enabled by default prior to v2.0. In order to copy video to the iPhone, I had to select the check box for "Manually Manage Music and Videos" under the Summary tab in the iTunes sync settings. The option wasn't there until I upgraded iTunes (currently using v7.7.1.11) and I hadn't bothered to mess with it because I expected things to stay the way I had them set up. I am now able to manually drag and drop movies to the phone and they play fine. If I deselect the check box for "Manually Manage Music and Videos", all of the content I added manually will be automatically removed from the iPhone.
Although I can play video files, they are still not displayed under the Movies section under the Video tab in iTunes sync settings. This includes video files from podcasts and movie trailers downloaded from apple.com.
Push = Reduced Battery Life
The email "Push" and "Fetch" options also changed in v2.0. "Push" is enabled by default, which ignores the manually "Fetch" settings and reduces battery life because the phone is accessing the network every time new mail is received at the mail server. "Push" must be disabled first in order to activate the manual "Fetch" settings. This way, email is downloaded only when the operator checks for email manually.
More information is available in the iPhone User Guide
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in Finder (on a mac) go to Applications then find iSync. Click on iSync next to the apple at the top menu bar and choose Preferences
Then click Clear Sync History.
You can then go back to itunes and sync your movies.
All sorted!
Tim
THIS IS TOTALY STUPID, apple don't make me regret buying from you, I was thinking about buying some apple titles, but since they hire total incompetent at apple I changed my mind...... let me know when those idiot get fired.
Just spoke to Apple, and they have fixed my sync movies issue. its really simple and something we should all do now and then to clear the sync history.
in Finder (on a mac) go to Applications then find iSync. Click on iSync next to the apple at the top menu bar and choose Preferences
Then click Clear Sync History.
You can then go back to itunes and sync your movies.
All sorted!
Tim
Not everybody is using a mac.... in fact theres not much people using a mac, so how do we do it on pc!?
Not everybody is using a mac.... in fact theres not much people using a mac, so how do we do it on pc!?
I use both a Mac and PC.
Thanks for posting that.
Thnaks for posting "image not found" ...
First i installed the app on my mac called, Disk Aid
(make sure you have latest version so it works with OS 3.0.1 or later)
this app makes it possible to enter your iPhone trough USB.
(you can browse only Media Folder or Disk Aid Folder)
when it does, go to Media Folder>DCIM , the place all your Camera photo's and video's are stored.
now you only have to drag your photo's or video's to that place. Make sure you have them named the same as the other photo's in that map. example: IMG_0009.JPG for video: IMG_0034.MOV
for a video make sure you have them converted right!
(QuickTime Pro or other 3rd party software)
codecs: H.264, AAC
colorprofile: SD (6-1-6)
That's all, have fun!