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iTunes is an application available for macOS and Windows. It is used to manage & play media and sync data to iOS devices.

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Why can't I add new m4v videos to my iTunes library?

Try looking in Music Videos, TV, etc, in case iTunes is putting it in the "wrong" section. …
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Apple TV Home Videos

If you don't mind sacrificing the Genre tag, you could tag "real" Movies with Genre="Movie", and your home movies with Genre="Home Movie", and then browse by Genre on the ATV.
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How to get iTunes 11 to Group by Album Name

In fact, if you follow Kirk's answer and set the Compilation flag, all of your compilations automatically get grouped together anyway (at least in previous iTunes revs). … In TrinitronX's approach they get grouped together under "VA" (or just "Various", in the default iTunes approach). …
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iTunes won't play from Apple TV

Download the TV, etc, to your Mac/PC, turn on iTunes Home Sharing on the Mac/PC and on the ATV, choose "Computer" on the ATV, and stream it from the Mac/PC to the ATV. …
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Changing movie genre in AppleTV (4th Generation)?

Edit the genres in iTunes. On the ATV, access the movies through Home Sharing, NOT through the Movies app. …
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How can I show only certain movies in iTunes on the Apple TV 2nd Generation?

AFAIK, everything in iTunes is shared via Home Sharing. Photos are the only part of Home Sharing that offer any choices. … Remove undesired movies, etc, from iTunes if you don't want other devices to have access too. …
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How can I remove errant podcast entries in iTunes?

You can Google for ways to force iTunes to recreate your library based on the hand-edited XML library. Just make backups - it's pretty easy to quit iTunes and copy your backups back into place. …
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Purchased an entire season of a show, but newest episodes are requesting payment of $2.99

Submit a Help request thru the iTunes store. This happened to me for Archer Season 4, Episode 4. Took about 3-4 days, and then I finally got the email saying it was ready for me to download. …
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When playing a TV in iTunes via AirPlay to Apple TV, it doesn't play the next episode

Whether you play the TV show from the special TV Show section of iTunes or create a playlist, iTunes will only play on TV show and then stop. … Try the playlist approach - iTunes won't even play the playlist, but forces you to select one show and then start playing. …
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Is there a limit as to how many apple TVs i can connect to 1 iTunes account?

Use Home Sharing in iTunes, and sign into each ATV's "iTunes and App Store" account setting with the same account, and you'll be all set. …
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itunes - mp4 files randomly divided between "Movies" and "Home Videos" in library

If you like using the Terminal, download and compile mp4v2, then run a command like: mp4tags -i "movie" <filename> Make a backup first, but I use this all time, works great.
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Best HandBrake-Settings to rip DVD (multi-language) for iTunes / Apple TV / Mac / iPhone etc

HB includes some Apple and iTunes presets. Start with those, and experiment. You should be able to easily make files compatible with iTunes, VLC, etc. … I think the iTunes preset includes this, but I wanted to highlight this important part. If you also want to play your movies on your iPhone/iPad, you MUST include a stereo track. …
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Script iTunes to prepend Season and Episode number (padded) to episode title

I have a Python script called "tag_tv" that does all of this work, outside of iTunes, but fully compatible with all of the Apple products. …
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Can I stream movies from external drive to the new Apple TV?

My iTunes music folder and all of my movies (in separate folders) are on an external drive. In fact, it's a NAS RAID box, but it's mounted on my Mac mini. … You just have to load the movies into iTunes. When you do, they'll be visible to the Apple TV. Of course, they have to be in the MP4/M4V favored by Apple. …
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Streaming Video Content/Conversion - MacBook Pro (iTunes) to Apple TV [.MKV to .M4V]

You can't Google this topic without coming across Handbrake, a terrific free tool for re-encoding into all sorts of containers/formats. Frizlab's answer for ffmpeg is spot on for the lossless convers …
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