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

 

How Do You Think about Nokia Lumia 710

So how do you think about Nokia Lumia 710? actually,  Nokia Lumia 710 is  just one entry-level Windows smartphone, but it is the first Windows smartphone with 4G capability in United States, for the first sight on it you may think Nokia Lumia 710 is not a good smartphone relatively to famous iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy S2 or Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X. Because many features on Nokia Lumia 710 are not as goog as those phones.

For Nokia Lumia 710 CPU, which is a single core Qualcmm MSM8255 (WCDMA) with 1.4 GHz clock rate processor, but iPhone 4S , Samsung Galaxy S2 are dual core processor, the HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S3 are quad core Processor, for this difference, what's your opinion if you are intending to buy a pone? I guess Nokia Lumia 710 will be not in your planning list, as other things like RAM, display on Nokia Lumia 710 are the same situation with the CPU, they are all out of date in your eyes.

But it is a good phone in my opinion, the most reason is Nokia is the best phone manufacturer in the world, which phones can usually get better call quality in metro and other lower phone signal districts, and that is the most important feature for a phone, I think.  And durable is another great characteristic on Nokia phone, and I think that will be the same with Nokia Lumia 710. My Nokia phone has 7 years old now and which is still keep with me , even though I have also another phone to use.

So the views upon are just my experience on Nokia Phone, let's continues to talk about Nokai Lumia 710. Actually, Nokia Lumia 710 has a 800 by 480 pixels  3.7 inch touch screen with Nokia's ClearBlack display technology, the storage on Nokia Lumia 710 is 8GB without extra SD expanding capability, the RAM is 512 MB. And also a 5MP camera with 720p video recording and 2592 by 1944 pixels photo shooting capability. And more interesting is you'll find that all of your Windows Media movie can be played on Nokia Lumia 710 easily, as which support the WMV 9, AVI, ASF videos properly.

Another aspect that Nokia Lumia 710 can also make us easy to be active on social network easily, as the built in social network app including Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin. With the IE 9, HTML5 and Wi-Fi ability, you'll find it is the same experience for browsing on high-end smatphones like Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X and even the soon coming iPhone 5 with Nokia Lumia 710.

Thus, Nokia Lumia 710 is not so bad as you think at your first sight, and most important is that is a phone , so if you want to get a phone, it must be one of the best choices like Lumia 900, Lumia 800 and other phone with the high call quality, indeed, iPhone 4S is not has the good call quality ability. Therefore, Nokia Lumia 710 is a good phone, but it is not worth you have if you are just for entertainment with a phone, the good phone for entertainment you can choose are iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note.

More interesting is you can get Nokia Lumia 710 with free from T-Mobile now.