How to Sync iTunes m4v movies to Windows Media Player

How to convert iTunes M4V videos to Windows Media Player formats

Noteburner M4V Converter is a complete solution to help you convert iTunes DRM protected M4V movies to wmv, avi, mov, mp4 formats for playing well with Windows Media Player.  In this article, we will show you how to sync iTunes Movies with Windows Media Player.

Step 1.Import M4V movies from iTunes library

Click "Add" button, you will get a popup window listing all files in iTunes library. You can search M4V videos according name, then select the videos, click OK button.

Step 2. Set output path and output format

You can select output format and output path as following pictures show. Noteburner M4V Converter supports AVI, MP4, Quicktime MOV, MPEG, MPG etc. as output.

Note: If you don't set to custom output path, the output files will be saved in the default folder.

Step 3. Customize video and audio options on the right settings panel.

You can customize the output video codec, bitrate, Ratio and audio codec, bitrate, channel for the output vidoes.

Step 4. Click "Convert" button to switch iTunes M4V videos to Windows Media Player formats with NoteBurner M4V Converter for Windows.

Information about video file types Windows Media Player supports

M4V Movies purchased or rental from iTunes store are DRM protected and limited to play on most players and portable devices other than Apple's. Fo windows users, it's impossible to play iTunes purchased movies with Windows Media Player. Let's take a view of the file type that Windows Media Player supports at first.

Windows Media Video (.wmv, .wm)

Windows Media Video (.wmv) files are Advanced Systems Format (.asf) files that include audio, video, or both compressed with Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) codecs. By using a separate extension, you can install multiple players on your computer and associate certain players with the .wmv extension for playback of audio and video sources.

Audio Visual Interleave (.avi)

Audio Video Interleave (AVI) is a special case of Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). AVI is defined by Microsoft. The .avi file format is the most common format for audio and video data on a computer. Versions of Windows Media Player that support this file type:

Windows Media Player 7

Windows Media Player for Windows XP

Windows Media Player 9 Series

Windows Media Player 10

Windows Media Player 11

Moving Pictures Experts Group (.mpg, .mpeg)

The Moving Picture Experts Group develop the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standards. These standards are an evolving set of standards for video and audio compression.

QuickTime content (.mov)

Apple Computer developed the QuickTime file format to create, edit, publish, and view multimedia files. QuickTime format can contain video, animation, graphics, 3D and virtual reality (VR) content. Only QuickTime files version 2.0 or earlier can be played in Windows Media Player.

MPEG-4 (.mp4)

MPEG-4 is an International Standards Organization (ISO) specification that covers many aspects of multimedia presentation including compression, authoring and delivery.