How to Watch iTunes Purchased and Rented Videos on Xbox 360

Xbox 360, a game console of Microsoft, was initially made public in 2005 and is still popular in nowadays. Xbox 360, except the function of playing games, can also play online music, TV Shows and movies as well as media files from local PCs.

Things you need to know about Multimedia Function of Xbox 360

1. Supported media contents:

Music, television programs, and films through the Xbox Music and Xbox Video portals

Third-party content services through media streaming applications

Media files from local PCs

2. Supported media types:

Videos in WMV format (including high-definition and PlaysForSure videos), H.264 and MPEG-4 media as well as MPEG-4 ASP format videos

Pictures and slideshows of photo collections with various transition effects

Music of most non-protected formats

3. Supported media sources:

Standard USB mass storage devices

Xbox 360 proprietary storage devices (such as memory cards or Xbox 360 hard drives)

Servers or computers with Windows Media Center or Windows XP with Service pack 2 or higher within the local-area network in streaming mode

It seems that Xbox 36o supports very limited video formats. If you happen not to have videos of formats supported by it, you need to convert them. iTunes purchased and rented M4V videos is just the case. But another essential reason for iTunes videos' incompatibility with Xbox 360 is that they are protected.

To watch iTunes videos on Xbox 360, you need to convert them to Xbox 360 supported formats like WMV. M4VGear Converter is quite professional in this. In other words, M4VGear is designed to losslessly convert iTunes purchases and rentals to multiple video and audio formats including WMV.

What M4VGear can do for you

Convert both iTunes purchases and rentals at 20X faster speed

Convert iTunes M4V videos to video and audio formats like WMV, MP4, AVI, etc.

Keep subtitles and audio tracks including AC3 5.1 audio

Retain lossless quality of original iTunes videos

Support both Windows and Mac Operating system

Tutorial: How to Convert iTunes videos to Xbox 360 supported format

Step 1

Install M4VGear Converter on your computer

Step 2

Import iTunes purchased and rented videos

Import from iTunes library the purchased and rented videos to M4VGear by clicking Add Movies button on the panel of the program. You are allowed to add more than one video at one time.

Step 3

Choose output format

Check the loaded videos and then go to the bottom left of the software to choose "Customized WMV video" as output format. After that, click the WMV icon on the right of the loaded videos and you will find some parameters for you to customize.

Step 4

Convert iTunes M4V videos to WMV format

Click "Convert" button to start converting iTunes videos to WMV format. Do not control iTunes during the process in case some error happens.

Step 5

Watch iTunes videos on Xbox 360

Generally, the output folder will be popped up after conversion is finished. If not, click Option on Windows or Click M4VGear > Preferences on Mac to find the output folder. Then copy the converted videos in WMV format to the USB storage devices and then connect it with Xbox 360. Finally, enjoy iTunes purchased and rented videos on Xbox 360.

If you find that the converted videos are all cut to one-minute, do not be panic. It is normally with the trial version of M4VGear. If you want to end the situation and get full access to M4VGear, buy the program at price $44.95 now (Original price is $49.95).

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