I'm having a terrible time trying to get movies to sync from itunes on my mac to my Apple TV. Any help or advice gratefully received!
Photos and music sync just fine. No apparent problems there. Nor do I have trouble finding ATV in the devices from iTunes. But still, every time I try to sync a movie from iTunes to ATV, it seemingly goes through the sync process with no substantive outcome. When I shut down the mac or just quit iTunes ATV has no movies in the "My Movies" section.
One of the movies I'm trying to sync to ATV was one originally bought from the iTunes store via the ATV, so I am certain there are no movie compatibility issues.
I tried to do a custom sync also - which achieved nothing except to generate a port 3689 error. I cleared the 3689 error message by turning off the firewall - but that's not such a great achievement given that the custom sync still simply goes through this phantom sync process with no eventual outcome.
As I said, maddeningly, photos and music sync perfectly - the rainbow bar on the sync page almost instantly demonstrates receiving new audio and photo content on the ATV as soon as the process starts. It never does this when syncing a movie.
So. What now? At the moment I have an expensive white and grey brick and I am very very unhappy. I would take the whole lot back to the shop if it weren't for the "told you it was a waste of money" look I'll get from the wife!
For background, I'm running a wireless network off a time capsule with one airport express as a bridge.
I feel like I have spent a totally disproportionate amount of time and effort trying to fix this (keeping myself calm by chanting "it just works....it just works....").
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.
Graeme.
Photos and music sync just fine. No apparent problems there. Nor do I have trouble finding ATV in the devices from iTunes. But still, every time I try to sync a movie from iTunes to ATV, it seemingly goes through the sync process with no substantive outcome. When I shut down the mac or just quit iTunes ATV has no movies in the "My Movies" section.
One of the movies I'm trying to sync to ATV was one originally bought from the iTunes store via the ATV, so I am certain there are no movie compatibility issues.
I tried to do a custom sync also - which achieved nothing except to generate a port 3689 error. I cleared the 3689 error message by turning off the firewall - but that's not such a great achievement given that the custom sync still simply goes through this phantom sync process with no eventual outcome.
As I said, maddeningly, photos and music sync perfectly - the rainbow bar on the sync page almost instantly demonstrates receiving new audio and photo content on the ATV as soon as the process starts. It never does this when syncing a movie.
So. What now? At the moment I have an expensive white and grey brick and I am very very unhappy. I would take the whole lot back to the shop if it weren't for the "told you it was a waste of money" look I'll get from the wife!
For background, I'm running a wireless network off a time capsule with one airport express as a bridge.
I feel like I have spent a totally disproportionate amount of time and effort trying to fix this (keeping myself calm by chanting "it just works....it just works....").
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.
Graeme.