MacOS – List view in Apps section of iTunes

You're probably in an iTunes-restricted country. While any user may re-download apps and books, re-downloads of music and movies are restricted to certain countries.

You'll need to manually copy the movies over to the XP computer. Note that you will need to activate iTunes with your AppleID to be able to play them.

The answer to your first question is yes.

Edit: The answer to the second is yes, please refer to: How to transfer a movie (.avi) from pc to iPad without iTunes?.

The reason it does not work is because an avi file is a container file, which encapsulates the underlying video and audio codec.

The video can be encoded with mp1v to mp4v, DIV 1 - 3, H264 or WMV, within the avi/mp4 files.

You will need to retranscode the movies so that the underlying format is acceptable to iTunes.

This can be done with vlc. There is a bug with vlc 2.1 which reduces the quality of movies, so I recommend using vlc 2.0.8. I am running Mac os x 10.8.5.

Start VLC:

press: ⌘+O, which will open the "open Source" window:

1. Click Browse ... Select your video file to be transcoded.
2. Tick Streaming/Saving
3. Click Settings...

You will then have to select the file name where to save the transcoded file, select the encapsulation method (which is "Quicktime" below). Then select the transcoding options, you will also need to set the bitrate which will set the quality, and the scale. The above settings work for me you may have to play around depending on your individual set up.

It was tested with vlc 2.0.8 and Mac OS X 10.8.5