Videos crashing iTunes

schinder (apparently) - 05:54am Jun 13, 2007 PST
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I don't purchase many videos from the iTunes store, because the
process isn't nearly as pleasant as purchasing and using audio. You
can't burn videos to DVD's to be played on any old DVD player, you can't
rip DVD's in iTunes (yes, I know about Handbrake and have used it, but
it's not the easy experience that ripping a CD in iTunes is). But there
are a couple of shows that my six year old daughter loves, "Wonder Pets"
 and "My Friends Tigger and Pooh" that are available on the iTunes
store, and those I've bought (NickJr never puts out season boxes of
DVD's while the entire first season of "Wonder Pets" is available at the
iTunes store, and "My Friend Tigger and Pooh" is a new Disney show not
yet available on DVD). In five years she'll no longer care about them,
so the permanence of a DVD isn't as big of a factor as it ordinarily
would be. But after the last couple of iTunes updates, starting a video
causes an immediate crash of iTunes on my G5. The same thing happens on
any other machine to which the videos are shared from my G5; iTunes on
the iMac and my Powerbook also crashes immediately upon starting up a
video. If it weren't for the fact that I recently got a video iPod for
my birthday, she'd be unable to watch videos at all. Anyone have any
suggestions?

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Paul Schinder
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