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Hi, I've been downloading the movies I've purchased through iTunes. Some download as .m4v files and others as HLS video with a padlock symbol in the icon. I can view the .m4v files offline with Quicktime Player and I presume many other applications, but what applications can I use to play the HLS video files?
When buying a movie (purchased several on 5/22/20), there doesn't seem to be any indicator about the file being HLS or m4v.
When buying a movie (purchased several on 5/22/20), there doesn't seem to be any indicator about the file being HLS or m4v.
I can view the .m4v files offline with Quicktime Player and I presume many other applications
Not that many others, as the iTunes Store files are protected from sharing around, by locking to your Apple ID account. iTunes, QuickTime Player, Apple TV app. That’s about it.
but what applications can I use to play the HLS video files?
Apple TV app.
The appleTV app can play it on the computer and can AirPlay it to an AirPlay computable receiver (e.g. AppleTV box, Vizio TV, Samsung TV etc). In the past downloaded ".m4v" files could be served to the Computer app on the AppleTV box but the newer HLS video files in a ".movpkg" container cannot be served to an AppleTV box - you can only use AirPlay.
I hope Apple changes this soon either in a 10.15.4 update on a TVos 14 update.
Movie downloads from the iTunes Store (and Apple TV app Channels) are locked to both the Apple ID and to the device. They cannot be copied/synced to other devices as file transfer. Even if you managed to copy somehow, they would refuse to play because of DRM. Each device will have to download their own copy directly from Apple’s servers.
Another question...
1 of my downloaded movies (Letters from Iowa Jima, which is an m4v file) has the movie description (short & long) in Arabic. The short can be edited, which I did to have English.
How can one edit the long into English?
Thank you.
Movies downloaded to MBP with MacOS Catalina with HLS format, cannot be copied to IPads or
iphones? I m trying but nothing happened
I have been able to pass from MBP to iPad Pro all HD movies but HLS no (under the same Apple ID). Therefore; I had to downloaded them again. Waste of time...
Movie reference. ... Should have been "Letters from Iwo Jima"
Apologies for the error
How do I view HLS Video
