How to Transfer iTunes M4V Videos to Android and Windows Phone

iTunes supports .MOV, .MP4, .M4V format videos well, and usually the .M4V movies on iTunes are DRM protected, it means we can't play them on our computer without authorizing (with iTunes account,the Apple ID for buying or renting that M4V movies or videos), and the same, we aren't able to transfer or sync that iTunes .M4V movies to our Android phones like Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X or Sony Xperia S, and Windows Phone like Nokia Lumia 710, Lumia 800, Lumia 900 or even the upcoming Lumia 820 and Lumia 920. So how to transfer iTunes M4V movies or videos to Android Phone and Windows Phone?

I think the key to make it possible to transfer iTunes M4V movies or videos to Android or Windows Phone is remove DRM from iTunes .M4V movies or videos, and then convert the iTunes M4V movies or videos to WMV or AVI for Windows phones, to MP4 with H.264 codec for Android phones. So there are some things we need to do before we can transfer or sync the iTunes DRM protected M4V movies to Samsung Galaxy S3 or Nokia Lumia 900.

And you may find there are many ways we can remove DRM from iTunes M4V movies, and then convert them to AVI, WMV or MP4 format ,then sync or transfer them to our Android or Windows devices.

But at here, the way I get is use a video converter which can remove DRM from iTunes .M4V videos and convert iTunes M4V videos to AVI, WMV or MP4 format at the same time. Actually, It is come from DRM Removal-How to Remove DRM From Protected iTunes Videos on Youtube. Now , the following are just the steps of how to transfer iTunes DRM protected .M4V videos to Android and Windows Phone.

Remove DRM from iTunes .M4V Video & Convert iTunes .M4V Video to Other Fromats(Part 1)

Step1, Load the iTunes video in the tool, you'll find the DRM protected video will be marked with a lock icon,which means we haven't authorize this iTunes .M4V video and we can't convert it before we authorize it.

Input iTunes .m4v video in

Step2, Set suitable output format for our devices, for Windows phone, we need to set the output format as AVI or WMV; for Android phone, we need to set the output format as MP4 (H.264 codec), and then to click on Start button to start to convert iTunes .M4V video, then this tool will trigger iTunes to open automatically to authorize this .M4V video with your Apple ID, then it will be able to convert the .M4V video to the format you just set.

iTunes opened automatically to authorize this .m4v video

 Transfer the Converted and DRM Removed .M4V Video to Android or Windows Phone(Part 2)

For Android phone, like Samsung Galaxy S3, we can connect it to computer, and then open the video or movie folder in it on our computer, and then we can drag and drop the converted and DRM removed iTunes .M4V video to it directly.

For Windows phone, we can connect Windows phone, like Nokia Lumia 900, to Zune, and then add the converted and DRM removed iTunes .M4V video to Zune to sync it to Nokia Lumia 900.

Zune