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FAQ – iTunes (M4V) Movies to my new Samsung Galaxy Note?

Is it possible to download a movie from iTunes and transfer them to my Galaxy Note? im really new at this and heard about “converting and ripping” or something like that… how? Can somebody give me a simple, easy solution to get my iTunes Music and Videos from Mac computer ported over to the android tablet phone?

The answer is POSSIBLE so long as you can strip DRM from iTunes movies. So the most important piece of the equation is that you have a DRM Removal Software installed to your Mac. As we all know, the TV episodes, movies, and music videos in the iTunes Store are encoded with M4V format. The copyright of M4V files may be protected by using Apple’s FairPlay DRM copyright protection. DRM can not stop users putting iTunes movie to an Android device, but it stops an Android tablet and smartphones playing iTunes movies- that’s why you get gray screen when trying to play an iTunes movie on Android tab like the mentioned Samsung Galaxy Note. So to watch a protected iTunes M4V file on Samsung Galaxy Note, you need to remove DRM from iTunes movies and swith M4V to MP4 format supported by Galaxy Note. Along with some help from the third-party software.

There are many programs out there that allow you to make free the iTunes m4v movies out of DRM restriction and let you watch them on the Galaxy Note the way you want. A recommended one is ChewTune – an iTunes m4v Converter for Mac. Specially designed for iTunes video zealots who use Mac OS, the iTunes movie to Galaxy Note Converter is and easy-to-use yet powerful application which can help us strip DRM from iTunes m4v movies and convert them into a file format compatible with Samsung Galaxy Note. This ideal program adopts advanced audio and video encoding technology, which will never bring you troubles of audio and video out of sync issues. Below is a DRM remvoal and conversion process.

Step by Step tutorial to convert iTunes M4V movie to MP4 for Samsung Galaxy Note on Mac OS

To use the Mac iTunes m4v to Android Converter, it is required that iTunes latest version be installed and correctly configured, which means you’ll need to

1. Set iTunes not to remember playback position.
2. Set iTunes to 32bit when/if you use ChewTune on Mac OS X Lion.

Step 1: Assuming you have downloaded the iTunes movie to Galaxy Note Converter to your Mac, the first step is run the program and put in password for user account as it requires.

Step 2: Press the “Add” icon to browse to iTunes library movie folder. In Finder window, open Music-> iTunes-> iTunes Media-> specific movie folder-> single .m4v file, and then press on “Choose”.

Step 3: Click on the “Format” bar to choose a format for iTunes video to Galaxy Note conversion. Follow “Common Video” group to choose customized format “H.264 Video (*.mp4)” for Galaxy Note. (Or choose “Motorola Xoom H.264 Video(*.mp4)” from “Android” category.)

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start to convert M4V videos to Galaxy Note MP4 under Mac OS. iTunes pops up automatically when conversion starts. Leave it be and don’t close iTunes till conversion completes.

So there you have it. Pretty simple. After this workflow, you can go to the output folder to download the converted iTunes m4v movies to Galaxy Note by connecting Galaxy Note with your Mac via a USB without any restrictions. Then you can throw iTunes m4v movies into Samsung Galaxy Note for playing back as you like.

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