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<blockquote data-quote="michelangelo" data-source="post: 1780289" data-attributes="member: 54225"><p>Thanks Slydude and Ferrar. I was silent because I have realised my question opened a whole can of worms. The process you both suggest seems perfect and seems to be the only one available (except maybe a shortcut by plugging the mac directly to the TV set, but this is not today's question). </p><p></p><p>Downloading. The top voted post on Quora (I checked) states that downloading from youtube is illegal in the US and post voted #2 contradicts post #1. I live in France, away from the vagaries of US laws, but hostile to any form of cheating. I have contacted ClipGrab, which went recently to an HTTPs connection to prevent man-in-the-middle attempts, because a lot of illegal activity goes in the line of movies and the Handbrake installer for mac was recently compromised for nearly one week; I asked whether a checksum of the installer could be made available to give me comfort it is not compromised by some hidden bad hombres (to quote president Trump). The guy is German, I trust he will give weight to this question. I will wait another 48 hours. </p><p></p><p>Syncing or streaming through an Apple TV (1st generation). There, your link to a Dec 13, 2017 Apple official post was exactly what I needed, except I had done syncing a year ago and found it easy, except also that this post does not seem to work (for me, for others as well <<a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7857195" target="_blank">https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7857195</a>>). According to my tests and to this thread on discussions.apple.com, these two features worked well until the infamous High Sierra update of iTunes from 16 to 17.2.58 (my version), whereby many formerly useful features of iTunes disappeared all of a sudden. </p><p></p><p>It seems probable that downloading and installing iTunes 16 (which I read somewhere Apple has made available for people who, like me, kept their iPhone Apps up-to date with iTunes rather that through direct downloading from their iPhones and iPads) is a cure for that. But there may be better cures that this, which is tantamount to remaining nailed to the past. </p><p></p><p>What I see here on iTunes is I still have an Apple TV reference from a rectangular menulet on the top left side of iTunes window, which features my computer, the Airport Express located in the living room and the Apple TV, each with a tick-on box, but I cannot access to the splash screen on the mac where to enter the five-digit code which my Apple TV produces and expects to receive from the mac for authentication. Authentication fails and the Apple TV remains unconnected to my iTunes Library (the one located on my mac, that is). </p><p></p><p>Apple's interests are safe, though. The Apple TV is still connected to my account at the iTunes store and can, in full autonomy from my mac, rent movies from the iTunes store. So my money can flow to Apple and I can watch paying movies located in the Cupertino servers, but I cannot watch free movies or photos located on my mac in my iTunes library. </p><p></p><p>Weird... </p><p></p><p>I will post my question on discussions.apple.com and possibly enlist the help of Apple in its majesty. The Apple technical assistance people are always helpful on the phone. About a year ago, I got this Apple TV 1st generation reconnected with the help of an apple person. Quite nice... I will then summarise here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="michelangelo, post: 1780289, member: 54225"] Thanks Slydude and Ferrar. I was silent because I have realised my question opened a whole can of worms. The process you both suggest seems perfect and seems to be the only one available (except maybe a shortcut by plugging the mac directly to the TV set, but this is not today's question). Downloading. The top voted post on Quora (I checked) states that downloading from youtube is illegal in the US and post voted #2 contradicts post #1. I live in France, away from the vagaries of US laws, but hostile to any form of cheating. I have contacted ClipGrab, which went recently to an HTTPs connection to prevent man-in-the-middle attempts, because a lot of illegal activity goes in the line of movies and the Handbrake installer for mac was recently compromised for nearly one week; I asked whether a checksum of the installer could be made available to give me comfort it is not compromised by some hidden bad hombres (to quote president Trump). The guy is German, I trust he will give weight to this question. I will wait another 48 hours. Syncing or streaming through an Apple TV (1st generation). There, your link to a Dec 13, 2017 Apple official post was exactly what I needed, except I had done syncing a year ago and found it easy, except also that this post does not seem to work (for me, for others as well <[URL="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7857195"]https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7857195[/URL]>). According to my tests and to this thread on discussions.apple.com, these two features worked well until the infamous High Sierra update of iTunes from 16 to 17.2.58 (my version), whereby many formerly useful features of iTunes disappeared all of a sudden. It seems probable that downloading and installing iTunes 16 (which I read somewhere Apple has made available for people who, like me, kept their iPhone Apps up-to date with iTunes rather that through direct downloading from their iPhones and iPads) is a cure for that. But there may be better cures that this, which is tantamount to remaining nailed to the past. What I see here on iTunes is I still have an Apple TV reference from a rectangular menulet on the top left side of iTunes window, which features my computer, the Airport Express located in the living room and the Apple TV, each with a tick-on box, but I cannot access to the splash screen on the mac where to enter the five-digit code which my Apple TV produces and expects to receive from the mac for authentication. Authentication fails and the Apple TV remains unconnected to my iTunes Library (the one located on my mac, that is). Apple's interests are safe, though. The Apple TV is still connected to my account at the iTunes store and can, in full autonomy from my mac, rent movies from the iTunes store. So my money can flow to Apple and I can watch paying movies located in the Cupertino servers, but I cannot watch free movies or photos located on my mac in my iTunes library. Weird... I will post my question on discussions.apple.com and possibly enlist the help of Apple in its majesty. The Apple technical assistance people are always helpful on the phone. About a year ago, I got this Apple TV 1st generation reconnected with the help of an apple person. Quite nice... I will then summarise here. [/QUOTE]
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