Why do some Tv Episodes Play on Apple Tv and Others Dont?

Grab a copy of MediaInfo from:-

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download

Run it on one of the files that wont play and post all the generated info so we can have a look and see if anythings wrong with the file.

Dude, I'll play a video, stop it, try to play the same one again and get an error message. It's called the ATV operating system is crap. It's things like this that show what Apple means by, "it's a hobby." I have had very few problems playing infinitely more videos in iTunes, which Apple obviously spends a lot of time and money developing. An Apple TV should really just be a box that plays iTunes with a remote control instead of Front Row's redheaded stepchild.

PcBgone said:

I just got an apple tv. I had encoded my entire dvd collection using handbrake and the apple tv presets. I knew one day I would eventually get an Apple Tv. I got everything to sync, however some episodes of some of my shows play while others do not. They all work fine in Itunes. I get some kind of error stating the file is in an incorrect format, but they are all m4v's.

Any ideas?

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First, restart your computer and apple tv. If they still do not play, it likely means you did something wrong during encoding. As others said, sometimes there are glitches where a file that is known to be compatible will be unrecognized, but a restart will always fix this issue.

If you use the Universal Setting in Handbrake, you will have no issues.