What Can You Download [PORTABLE] To Watch Offline
Didio Overturf
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If you're in one of the countries/regions listed above, you can download certain videos from the YouTube mobile app to watch offline. These videos will be available for up to 48 hours. After that, you'll need to reconnect your device to a mobile or Wi-Fi network every 48 hours. Reconnecting will allow the app to check for changes to the video or its availability.
Downloaded videos can be played offline for up to 48 hours. After that, you'll need to reconnect your device to a mobile or Wi-Fi network every 48 hours. Reconnecting will allow the app to check for changes to the video or its availability. If a video is no longer available for offline playback, it will be removed from your device during the next sync.
Netflix added offline storage within the last year, but I haven't really heard many people talking about it. Keeping your shows stored offline will allow you to watch them when you don't have a Wi-Fi or cellular connection, like on an underground train, on an airplane (the Wi-Fi on planes still largely blocks streaming services) or out in the woods on a camping trip.
Using ios 11.2.5 Movies I have downloaded, or ripped myself and have watched for years are suddenly unplayable without a wifi or cellular connection. Can find no setting to change, these are my movies and have nothing to do with icloud, streaming or my apple account, why can't i watch them now?
I think you misunderstood my post (my poor phrasing). It is illogical at best and stupid at worst for Apple to prevent me from watching home movies of my children on my phone because of some new misguided attempt at copyright protections.
Ripping dvds that I have legally purchased and wish to watch is NOT copyright infringement and has long been settled by courts. Videos legally downloaded from itunes won't work either, nor home videos of my kids that were watchable last week, all because this app now demands an internet connection?
2nd, because of my children's many sports we spend hours every day in structures with 0 wifi and no cell connection. There is no cellular connection up north, nor at the beach, both places that watching legally owned or self created content would be enjoyable.
Videos will play if connected to wifi or have a cell connection, though the tv app screen is blank for many seconds and looks like it has crashed. It's just taking forever. Things look fine once it loads, but attempting to watch anything will create the error "must connect to wifi/cellular to play"
If you put the phone into airplane mode, videos will not be able to be played. I did this to simulate not having a viable connection. *** now anyone on a plane that wants to watch videos bought from itunes, ripped legally (remember the Rip. Mix. Burn campaign by Apple?) or home-created movies cannot watch them. ***
One very short-term partial solution I discovered is that if you start a movie in itunes, and then pause it. Then put it into airplane mode (or presumably lose internet/cell coverage) the video can be restarted and watched in it's entirety. I have successfully done this with a ripped (bought & paid for) movie (Ghostbusters), an itunes downloaded tv show (Stranger Things) and a video of my daughters softball game.
I used to always download movies from iTunes to my laptop watch on airline flight...no problem. Now I downloaded three for two recently long flights and none would play without an internet connection. What has changed and why?? What do I need to do? It seems much easier to just download from Amazon to my Kindle now!! But this should not be this hard.
Checking with About renting movies from the iTunes Store - Apple Support it would seem that as long as the whole renal download has completed to the device then you should be able to watch it when your device is offline. I suspect that idea of starting playback at the airport (assuming free Wi-Fi) just before the flight is that at least you might have a chance of resolving any authorization issue there, when it will be too late once you're aloft.
I've downloaded a lot of rental movies from iTunes to watch on airplane flights. They usually work off-line just fine, but occasionally they will not play. Now I know that sometimes you need an Internet connection to get the movie opened, and I will start the movie at home before I leave for the airport. I had one rental that, after two weeks since the downloading, give me a message that the movie had expired. I'm wondering if, somehow, the movie had been opened without my realizing it. I bought a pair of comfortable foldable headphones, and I keep them in my carry bag for airplane movie viewing. I jack them into my iPad with a cord, which avoids any Bluetooth problems. So much better than earbuds!
Well I sort of understand this and could do this but i usually download movies to watch on the over and return trips and by the time I return the movies have expired or if I don't get right back to the one I have opened it's again too late. But I think I did try this and it still did not play once on the airplane. I guess I will just have to try again. BUT I also don't know why this has changed. We never had to start them before what I imagine was one of the updates. It was much simpler before. Bummer. Now I just either rent the airline movie player or use my Kindle and Amazon movies with no problem at all.
Did you know you can watch content offline using Stream's mobile apps? Using Stream for iOS and Android, you can continue to watch videos when network connectivity is limited, unavailable, or if you prefer to save cellular data.
Spending time on the subway, on an airplane, or somewhere with limited internet access? You can save videos to an offline playlist and watch those videos when no internet connection is available. Any video that can be played back in the app can be saved to the offline playlist.
To access the offline playlist in a single tap, go to your profile and select the Offline option from the menu. Videos saved to the offline playlist can only be played within the Vimeo app and cannot be exported or played in other apps.
I'm in the market to buy 3 streaming devices and I'd like to buy something that has storage for downloading movies and shows for offline viewing. My 3 TVs are in a camper and it gets used in rural areas with limited to no internet signal sometimes. Do any Roku devices have the ability to store movies and shows for offline viewing, and if so, what should I look for when purchasing?
To my knowledge there is no streaming player that offers the ability to download content for later viewing. Some service providers, such as Prime Video and Netflix do offer an ability to download content for offline viewing, but that is only available on devices such as a computer, phone or tablet. No streaming player has the internal storage capability to support downloading content. That simply isn't what they are designed for.
I see a lot of excuses in that reply. Devices have had the ability to not only use MicroSD cards for quite some time, but the ability to have large amounts of internal storage. Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks there's merit to devices, like Roku sticks, offering one or both of these options. People should be able to (and strongly encouraged to) download entire seasons or series of shows, as well as music playlists, for offline use. Not only are internet speed slow in many areas, requiring all users stream their videos as they're watching them makes the situation much worse (because you get the entire block streaming at the same time every day, thus slowing down the internet for others), when they could have downloaded non-live shows and movies in the middle of the night automatically if companies like Roku implemented this relatively basic features. Offline viewing and listing has been around elsewhere for years and there's no legit reason your company, and companies like yours, couldn't "design" devices that do operate that way. Just because you haven't "designed" or "manufacturered" such a product yet, doesn't mean it's not the better idea. I was selling DVRs with large internal storage drives, capable of storing a ton of footage, back in the early 2000's. Why everyone these days seems to think streaming everything is the greatest idea since sliced bread should take a few more computer classes and realize that in most cases, offline data storage has many huge advantages over streaming. Not least of which is freeing up bandwidth so that other in your household, as well as others in your neighborhood, can do things that actually require streaming (especially during peak hours), like gaming, video conferencing, and watching live TV. Requiring that everyone streams everything only drives up internet prices (because of higher demand for faster speeds), but often times completely surely screwes up incredibly important video calls between family and/or friends world-wide because you're not offering solutions that are half as efficient as they should be. Not only should the norm be that you can download media offline (music and video) but that you can download it to a network storage drive where you can everything stored on it to any of your devices at any time. The only reason it's is not the must-have tech device of the year this holiday season is because companies like yours refuse to make it, for no good reason!
That's not an excuse, it's a business decision. If you want offline playback, then you use a device that is designed for such use, like a laptop or tablet. Providers like Netflix and Prime video permit download for offline viewing on things like an iPad or Android tablet.
@Toby5 There's no such thing as you claim. No Roku has the ability to download media for offline viewing. Yes, devices with USB ports (such as the Ultra or a Roku TV) can play media directly from an attached USB drive without a network connection. But that's not the same as downloading content to the Roku.
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