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Any "secret" way to easily find where MOVIES are stored?

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getyup

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So I jailbroke, and I like using iTunes to sync movies, but the issue I have is when I want to delete something after watching, I can never find them, so have to wait and delete on sync.

Is there an easy way to find where the movies are stored on the device?
 
The easiest way is, to sync the videos to a third-party-app, like VLC or OPlayer. After watching you can delete the files in the app or with iFile.
 
Do you mean movies that play in to iOS videos app? Inside the app, swipe your finger over the movie and tap delete.
 
I prefer CineXplayer. It works great on the ipad2 and you can delete as soon as your done watching them.
 
Brad02 said:
I prefer CineXplayer. It works great on the ipad2 and you can delete as soon as your done watching them.
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That's my second favorite, but I'm just not a huge fan of the interfaces of CineXPlayer or AVPlayer... they're not as clean and well-transitioned like the native player. Wish I could figure out where int he file system the videos went when the native sync added them so I could just iFile that directory and delete them as I watch em.
 
getyup said:
That's my second favorite, but I'm just not a huge fan of the interfaces of CineXPlayer or AVPlayer... they're not as clean and well-transitioned like the native player. Wish I could figure out where int he file system the videos went when the native sync added them so I could just iFile that directory and delete them as I watch em.
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I could tell you where the movie files are, but deleting them from iFile will seriously mess up the iTunes database. At the least, the video app will still think the video is still there even though you deleted it, and give you ugly file not found signs, at worst all your music, videos and podcast could become unplayable. Just delete them the way you are supposed to, as another poster has explained in post #6.
 
Night Spring said:
I could tell you where the movie files are, but deleting them from iFile will seriously mess up the iTunes database. At the least, the video app will still think the video is still there even though you deleted it, and give you ugly file not found signs, at worst all your music, videos and podcast could become unplayable. Just delete them the way you are supposed to, as another poster has explained in post #6.
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That works, I didn't even think about iTunes doing it's funky organizational garbage. Sounds good. Thanks.

One more question maybe you know. Do any of the apps like VLC, AVPlayer, CinemaX support output to Airplay to use w\ Apple TV? Or is it just the native player?
 
getyup said:
That works, I didn't even think about iTunes doing it's funky organizational garbage. Sounds good. Thanks.

One more question maybe you know. Do any of the apps like VLC, AVPlayer, CinemaX support output to Airplay to use w\ Apple TV? Or is it just the native player?
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I never use video out myself, so I'm not 100% sure about this -- I know with iPad 1 it was just native player only, but with iPad 2, I believe it's all apps. Then there were reports that 4.3 enabled it on iPad 1 too, but since I don't use this feature, I haven't paid close attention to whether these reports were verified. However, I'm pretty sure there's a jailbreak app that does enable video out for all apps. Sorry don't know what it is called.
 
Night Spring said:
I never use video out myself, so I'm not 100% sure about this -- I know with iPad 1 it was just native player only, but with iPad 2, I believe it's all apps. Then there were reports that 4.3 enabled it on iPad 1 too, but since I don't use this feature, I haven't paid close attention to whether these reports were verified. However, I'm pretty sure there's a jailbreak app that does enable video out for all apps. Sorry don't know what it is called.
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Cool, I'll dig around. Thanks!
 
getyup said:
So I jailbroke, and I like using iTunes to sync movies, but the issue I have is when I want to delete something after watching, I can never find them, so have to wait and delete on sync.

Is there an easy way to find where the movies are stored on the device?
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If you are simply looking to delete the movie from the ipad, just go to the Movies app and when the list appears, press on the movie & hold. It will create an X in the upper left. Click the X. You will be prompted with an "are you sure"....click Yes and the movie is summarily deleted!

I'm on 4.3.3 JB.

I could never quite get the "Swiping" that AdrianK mentioned above to work. Pressing and holding always works for me, tho.
 
zaxdude said:
If you are simply looking to delete the movie from the ipad, just go to the Movies app and when the list appears, press on the movie & hold. It will create an X in the upper left. Click the X. You will be prompted with an "are you sure"....click Yes and the movie is summarily deleted!

I'm on 4.3.3 JB.
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Yeah, that's a viable solution until I plug into my computer and sync and the movie comes right back like a bad ex girlfriend.
 
getyup said:
Yeah, that's a viable solution until I plug into my computer and sync and the movie comes right back like a bad ex girlfriend.
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Well ya also have to remove it from your itunes movies library.... it won't deleve the movie from wherever you store it on the hard drive unless you want it to be deleted. to add the movie back to the ipad, put it back in the library before the next sync.
 
zaxdude said:
Well ya also have to remove it from your itunes movies library.... it won't deleve the movie from wherever you store it on the hard drive unless you want it to be deleted. to add the movie back to the ipad, put it back in the library before the next sync.
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Well yeah I know if I delete it from iTunes it'll delete it from my device, hehe. The point was it'd be nice if there was an easy way, when I download a season of TV show, and watch them while in flight, to delete them off my device and then when I get home not have to re-delete them. Guess it's just not reality.
 
that's a restrictiion of iTunes & not the device. i you have it in your library, iTunes is obviously going to sync it unless removed.

I "manually manage" movies and music. I drop what I want onto the iPad when I want it there from iTunes. Then when I delete it from the iPad it doens't get added at the next sync.
 
My favorite is XBMC, it has a horrible interface (well not horrible but just not made for touch screens)

Cause I was on a plane trip, had synced HD movies to MoviePlayer (app from AppStore ) it didnt play them, so copied them over to VLC's folder and it didnt play it. (both managed to start the movies but it seams they arent optimised for iPad 2, so the movies were unwatcheble)

I used iFile to make a symlink between XBMC and MoviePlayer. And it played them great.
 
I had no idea you could hold to delete the standard videos, wow. Thats nice to know, I synch some video podcasts that take up a lot of space and certainly don't need to stay after watching.
 
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