Apple Jan. 27 launch event... what will it be?

[Uncle Ted]

Techies, when using my device to read CUF, sometimes YouTube posts appear normally...ie, I can click on them and view them. Other times, they appear as grey boxes and are unplayable. Any idea why this happens?

An example...go to Timbo's Best Songs of 2010 thread. Marsupial made two consecutive YouTube posts. The first one is not playable, the second one is.

All youtube videos are encoded for flash but a lot of videos are encoded for h.264 as well. The iPad/iPhone mobile safari only plays h.264 encoded videos. I suspect that the first one is only flash encoded.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Help me, Uncle Ted. You are my only hope.

I have 5-6 movies that I have ripped from DVD and synched to my ipad. Everything has worked fine, but I added a new one today and I noticed that the little preview disappeared in iTunes. Then I synched to my iPad and now when I open the Video app in iPad all I can see is a set of big gray icons with no title and no preview. The movies play just fine, there just is no title. I have found a few (very few) websites talking about the bug and a few suggestions, but nothing I have tried seems to fix it. Ever heard of this? Any suggestions?

[Uncle Ted]

Help me, Uncle Ted. You are my only hope.

I have 5-6 movies that I have ripped from DVD and synched to my ipad. Everything has worked fine, but I added a new one today and I noticed that the little preview disappeared in iTunes. Then I synched to my iPad and now when I open the Video app in iPad all I can see is a set of big gray icons with no title and no preview. The movies play just fine, there just is no title. I have found a few (very few) websites talking about the bug and a few suggestions, but nothing I have tried seems to fix it. Ever heard of this? Any suggestions?

It sounds like you need to reset the poster frames for videos your videos for some reason. If you play the video within iTunes, pause it, and then right click on the video you should get a pop up menu. One of the options is to "set poster frame". Try selecting it to see if it will fix the problem with the preview.

Another way to change this is to go to movies in iTunes and right click on the movie. You should get a popup menu that has an option "Get Info". By selecting it you should get a dialog that has lots of options. By selecting "Info" you should be able to edit the title and lots of other information. By selecting artwork you can take about any jpg or whatever and make it the thumbnail for the video. A lot of DVDs have the box artwork stored in a folder on the DVD.

I have never seen this problem but hope this helps. BTW, you may like to try the app VLC for the iPad. VLC will play about any video file format and not just those encoded for the iPad.

[DrumNFeather]

Pardon my ignorance, but is it worth getting the 16 or 32 gig Ipads? Or is it pretty much 64 or bust?

[Uncle Ted]

Pardon my ignorance, but is it worth getting the 16 or 32 gig Ipads? Or is it pretty much 64 or bust?

It really depends how many movies and how much music you want to store on the iPad at once. Apps don't take a lot of memory (maybe 100MB per app) and most likely you won't have that many. Video takes about 0.5GB-0.75GB per hour. So with a 16GB iPad you should have enough memory for maybe up to a dozen movies. For 128K bitrate music it is about 1MB per minute. For higher quality bitrates it will be more MB's per minute. For MP3's with 192K bitrate I am guessing it might be about 1.5MB per minute. So for your average 3 minute song it may take about 4.5MB.

[Jeff Lebowski]

It sounds like you need to reset the poster frames for videos your videos for some reason. If you play the video within iTunes, pause it, and then right click on the video you should get a pop up menu. One of the options is to "set poster frame". Try selecting it to see if it will fix the problem with the preview.

Another way to change this is to go to movies in iTunes and right click on the movie. You should get a popup menu that has an option "Get Info". By selecting it you should get a dialog that has lots of options. By selecting "Info" you should be able to edit the title and lots of other information. By selecting artwork you can take about any jpg or whatever and make it the thumbnail for the video. A lot of DVDs have the box artwork stored in a folder on the DVD.

I have never seen this problem but hope this helps. BTW, you may like to try the app VLC for the iPad. VLC will play about any video file format and not just those encoded for the iPad.

Thanks. The Set Poster Frame option would not work. I could select it, but nothing would change. Could not find Artwork tab in Get Info, but I finally discovered that if I show the artwork window and then drag a file onto it, the artwork would finally change (and I could finally edit artwork via Get Info).

I just downloaded artwork from Amazon.com.

[Uncle Ted]

Thanks. The Set Poster Frame option would not work. I could select it, but nothing would change. Could not find Artwork tab in Get Info, but I finally discovered that if I show the artwork window and then drag a file onto it, the artwork would finally change (and I could finally edit artwork via Get Info).

I just downloaded artwork from Amazon.com.

I guess I should have added the following disclaimer...

If you are running iTunes on something other than Mac OS X then your mileage may vary.

[Coach McGuirk]

Thanks. The Set Poster Frame option would not work. I could select it, but nothing would change. Could not find Artwork tab in Get Info, but I finally discovered that if I show the artwork window and then drag a file onto it, the artwork would finally change (and I could finally edit artwork via Get Info).

I just downloaded artwork from Amazon.com.

Jeff, dowload metax from the internet. Run your m4v files through it and it will tag with the art, director, actors, etc. all in the appropriate spots, just as if you bought it from iTunes.

its free.

[Uncle Ted]

Get your (refurbished) iPads for up to $100 off.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/hom...mco=OTY2ODY4NQ

[falafel]

Apple allegedly to unveil iPad 2 on March 2nd, according to WSJ.

http://www.bgr.com/2011/02/22/apple-...d-wsj-reports/

[TripletDaddy]

Sweet. Time to upgrade.

For sale: First gen iPad. PM me for deets.

[falafel]

Sweet. Time to upgrade.

For sale: First gen iPad. PM me for deets.

Those things are going to be coasters soon. I'll give you $20.

[TripletDaddy]

Those things are going to be coasters soon. I'll give you $20.

I said to send a PM.

[falafel]

I said to send a PM.

I don't need the deets.

[TripletDaddy]

I don't need the deets.

Then you are overpaying. I was going to sell it for $10.