Questions tagged [video]
Video is series of still images played back at high speed to give the appearance of something moving.
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iPhone does not download & keep original photos from iCloud Photos
I have 1TB empty space on iPhone and 100GB photos and videos on iCloud. Although I have selected the related option to keep originals on iPhone about 2 weeks ago and left the iPhone on Wi-Fi (400Mbps) ...
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macOS Determinate if Firefox is running a video
So I have to explain little of the context: When coreaudiod is engaged (macOS deamon), the ext. display doesn't go to sleep mode. This wouldn't be a big issue but the problem is... when I switch off ...
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New M4 Max - watching videos on an external disk has occasional video and sound freezes (old Intel i9 didn't have the same issue with the same setup)
I am surprised this is happening on my new M4 Max, especially when it didn't happen on my old 2019 Intel i9! I literally switched the old out for the new, so it's the exact same disk and setup (aside ...
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iOS Video player supporting frame by frame and forward and reverse playback
I've had a search around the App Store but not had much success so far.
I'm looking for a video player that can play local video files to help me review incidents looking at in-car footage downloaded ...
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Studio Display dims whenever video player is visible
I have a Mac Studio Display that dims the screen whenever a video player like Apple TV, IINA, … is visible on any attached screen (not only on the Studio Display).
The video player does not have to be ...
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Framerate drops on video playback when graphic acceleration is disabled and black video if enabled
I have a M2 Mac Mini. I use this primarily for editing and watching content.
With services like Disney+ Hotstar and JioCinema and other streaming services, in most of the Videos, the playback shows a ...
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macOS Catalina Patcher and media playback
I've installed the dosdude1's Catalina patcher on a late 2011 MacBook Air i7 (Apple supported this machine up to High Sierra) and while it generally works fine, there's this weird issue with media ...
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Why are some MP4 H264 videos not playable on Safari iPhone? [duplicate]
Note: good answer on SO: MP4 video not playing on Safari iPhone.
In a blog post, I have a video embedded with <video><source src="..." that works for everyone (Firefox, Chrome, at ...
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Apple TV 3 AirPlay support on newer IOS
I am looking to buy an older A1427 model of Apple TV because I really only need it for AirPlay from the iPhone and 1080p is more than enough. I have heard that people have issues with older devices ...
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Is there an Apple TV app that lets you locally store videos/photos to watch offline?
I'm talking about an app that is like the "Files app" on iOS, or anything alike. I just have some videos that are on my MacBook that I would like to have stored on my Apple TV to watch them ...
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MP4 video in powerpoint only plays the second time (or third...)
I have a macOS PowerPoint presentation with inserted MP4 videos. When I first switch to a slide (either in slide editing or slide show mode) the first time I play a video it plays for the duration of ...
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How do I disable "Watch YouTube on TV" from my iPad mini?
I use iPad mini to listen to videos on YouTube app
This morning all the YouTube videos are automatically playing on my TV (I have Roku).
Both the app on iPad mini and Roku use the same Gmail account.
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FaceTime video call from unknown [duplicate]
I received a FaceTime video call from [email protected] , and didn’t answer. (The actual iCloud address seemed legitimate, but unknown to me)
No face was visible. I have recently updated my IOS to ...
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no iPadPro (2018) USB-C video output after 17.6.1 update
I have an iPadPro (2018) I’ve been using with my Dell 4k USB-C monitor almost 2 years now.
I got a new MacBookPro and decided to make this the primary USB-C device so I haven’t connected my iPadPro ...
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Keynote video lag
I have been experiencing some issues with Keynote videos. I make presentations that included different audio and video sources, but every once in a while a video will simply not play and appears only ...
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How to browse videos in iPhone backup?
I have videos taken by my iPhone and stored in the camera roll and photos library.
I use macos' photos app to import and view these videos on macos. I don’t use iCloud for videos/photos.
I’m assuming ...
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Shortcuts and metadata - How to copy and paste metadata from one photo/video to another using shortcuts app?
Can’t find answer to this anywhere!
Using the shortcuts app, is there a way to automate the process of taking metadata (or at least location, date, time) from a photo/video and pasting it into another ...
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How can I make a video playlist?
I have a group of 16 video "chapters" on one subject varying from 5 - 15 minutes long. I don't want to make them into one movie because I want to be able to play them in different ...
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What are the dimensions of the live video (*.MOV) file that accompanies a live photo?
I'm trying to find the video dimensions (height and width) for the short live video clip that accompanies an iPhone live photo. I downloaded photos from iCloud and see that live photos have both a ...
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Adding custom tags to an AVI format file
I converted mov file to AVI file, and I need it to have similar settings to some other video I have.
I saw that it has tags that are not the standard AVI tags. I tried to use ffmeg and add it to my ...
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Chrome hangs when hitting ESCape in a fullScreen video window
Chrome is able to show fullscreen videos but it can not reset the video standard mode. The audio still plays but chrome has altogether frozen: all other chrome windows are also frozen and no new ...
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How can I export all the photos and videos from the iPhone to my flash drive?
I have a flash drive connected to my iphone via cable. How can I export all the photos and videos from the iPhone to my flash drive?
I found support.apple.com:
Export photos and videos to an external ...
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How to close an ios app using shortcuts or stop app playing
I am using ios 17.1
Sometimes I fall asleep with a TV show playing on my iPhone then I am awakened hours later at a noisy part of the show because it autoplayed next few episodes.
Being awakened is ...
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How can I play a video directly from a USB flash drive on my iPhone, without having to transfer first the entire video from the flash drive to iPhone?
I have a USB flash drive that contains a video file. I'd like to view it on my iPhone. The USB flash drive is connected to my iPhone.
I know I can open the video by browsing the USB flash drive with ...
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Phantom `play_pause` keypress events
I have been experiencing these phantom keystrokes where any app related to media (vlc, music, youtube) constantly plays and pauses or even re-opens after closed. only the foreground app is affected.
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How can I start recording a video with as few actions as possible on my iPhone?
While that might sound like an easy question to answer, unfortunately it's not.
I have an iPhone 6s running iOS 15.8.2. The most obvious thing to do is with the screen locked, swipe left and start ...
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Fix Metadata on a .mov file?
I have a .mov file that I believe has corrupted metadata. Every player thinks its duration is 1 second, but it's really over a minute long.
I've tried converting it with ffmpeg -i input.mov output.mp4 ...
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Is there a Terminal command to run the Confetti reaction/effect in a video call?
Is there a Terminal command to run the Confetti reaction/effect in a video call?
Or maybe AppleScript?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/105117
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Is there a way to manually move Whatsapp videos between iPhones?
A week ago I moved to a new iPhone, moving all my Whatsapp chats and media to the new one using iCloud backup. Now, I forgot to backup videos, too, thinking they would move along with the phone's ...
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How can I copy and paste a video on MacOS?
So I take a video on my iPhone, go the Photos app on my MacBook Pro, copy the video, and paste it into a message in the Messages app (on the MacBook). But the video is not pasted, only a still image ...
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MacOS autopause video when conference is active
On MacOS chrome and firefox (although quicktime) both have strange behavior - when you are on call (zoom/discord/etc) if you try tyo start video in browser it pauses after some seconds. Time before ...
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How do I trim the middle part of a video in Photo Booth?
I want to save the beginning and end portions of a Photo Booth video for export.
In other words, I don't want the middle part.
However, Photo Booth seems to only let me select a single portion to save ...
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How do I watch Amazon Prime videos on the MacBook Pro M2?
There has got to be a reason why I cannot watch Amazon Prime videos on the MacBook Pro M2, because I can watch them on my non-M2 MacBooks. Anybody know what makes the M2 so special that I cannot do ...
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Downscale Videos in the photos app easily, from 4k to FHD
My Mac Photos app shows large 4K videos taking up significant iCloud storage. I want to downscale them to 2K or FHD for space savings, but retain all other video information like metadata, HDR, and ...
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Difficulty with VLC playing video files on Apple TV
Files are shared on LAN from MacOS 10.15.7 Catalina, using Home Sharing. Apple TV is model A1625 (Gen 4 I think), TvOS 17.2. VLC is ver. 3.4.9.
It's weird: I can view exactly one video file (.m4v or ....
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How to make Quick Time Player support .avi files?
I have an .avi file that I wanted to play via Quick Time Player only.
But when I try to open an example .avi file, I get this error dialog pop-up given below:
Note: I know that I can use advanced ...
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Recover screen recording that had destination set to SD card that was unmounted
I was using a program called iShowU Instant to create a screen recording on my Mac and the destination was set to the SD card in the Mac's built in SD card reader.
The Mac's battery died and the ...
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I cannot export Memory Video from the Photos app
I have tried several times to "Export Memory Video" from macOS Photos Version 7.0 (460.0.120), but nothing seems to happen.
I can successfully export images, but I am not finding any video ...
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How can I disable sending 'Reactions' that appear during video calls that I join from macOS?
With macOS Sonoma, 'reactions' like balloons, thumbs up, and fireworks appear during video calls (FaceTime, but also Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings etc). Depending on the meeting, I feel ...
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Videos downloaded from Google Photos won't play with QuickTime Player
I get this error when I try to play videos downloaded from Google Photos on the QuickTime player:
This file contains some media which isn’t compatible with QuickTime Player. Would you like to open ...
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No video after Monterey update on 2019 Mac Pro
I finally gave in to the update prompt on my 2019 Mac Pro. Now it boots but there is no video. I can log into it from another computer and see that everything looks normal, including Finder running. ...
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Exporting ProRes video correctly in macOS Photos.app
According to Apple, it is possible to edit ProRes video in the Photos app on macOS. I took some ProRes Log video on my iPhone 15 Pro directly fed into an external drive and connected the drive to my ...
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M3 AV1 hardware decoding requirements (encoding options, pixel format etc.)
Are there any restrictions on the encoder options, pixel formats, etc. that can be decoded by the M3 AV1 hardware decoder? For H264 and H265, only a subset of the bitstream options are accepted, both ...
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Disable Sonoma Video Screensaver
After updating to Sonoma, I turned on the new video screensaver. Now I would like to turn it off because I don't like it, but I can't seem to make it go away. I changed the Lock Screen settings to &...
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How to recover iPhone videos deleted through Image Capture on Mac?
I accidentally deleted some videos on an iPhone through Image Capture and there is no back up.
iPhone Xs
iOS 16.1.1
macOS Ventura 13.5.2
Image Capture 8.0
They are not in the 'Recently Deleted' ...
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How can one see the file extensions of images and videos on iPhone?
I have taken a few pictures and videos with an iPhone 12, which runs iOS 15. How can one see the file extensions of these images and videos on the iPhone?
I don't see file extensions in the native ...
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iPhone causes latency issues when streaming on my Samsung TV
If I am watching a 2k or 4K movie stream with a Firestick on my Samsung TV, it immediately goes into a stutter/lag if my wife opens up YouTube, Facebook or Messenger on her iPhone 13 Pro. Once she ...
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Access video feed from webcam with iPhone 15 over USB C
Now that the iPhone has USB C, is there a way to access the video feed from a usb webcam connected to the iPhone?
I know the iPad supports it out of the box in apps like face time but according to ...
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What solutions are there for preventing one’s phone from being grabbed from one’s hand whilst recording and the footage being unduly deleted?
It seems that if one begins recording video from a locked state then there is no way to delete and only to discontinue the recording without unlocking the phone. Are there any ways to create more ...
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How can I find “IMG_5983.MOV” when Photos calls its files 0472F3DE-5F86-1478-59EC-836FE208CDBD.mov?
When I attempt playing a video in Photos (8.0) on macOS (Ventura
13.5.2), Photos will occasionally tell me:
Videos with unavailable original files cannot be opened. The original video “IMG_5983.MOV” ...
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