How to Mirror iTunes Videos to TV with a Roku?

Tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Apple all have their own compelling living room devices, but Roku remains most people’s favorite overall streaming platform. If you want to settle on Roku, you need to figure out the two mainstream streamers of Roku: Roku 3 and Roku Streaming Stick.

Roku 3: The best overall choice

Price: $100, £80

$100, £80 Release date: March of 2013

March of 2013 Comments: With excellent interface and speedy processor, Roku 3 is quicker and more responsive than any other streaming box. More than 1,000 channels are supported, including Netflix, Amazon Instant, Hulu Plus, MLB.TV, Amazon Cloud Player, and Youtube. All in all, Roku is the best streaming player yet, which has tons of content sources, lightning-fast performance, and an innovative remote with built-in headphone jack. But Roku 3 does not work equally well within Apple ecosystem owing to the Apple's FairPlay Protection.

Roku Streaming Stick: Value packed

Price: $50, £50

$50, £50 Release Date: March of 2014

March of 2014 Comments: The Roku Streaming Stick goes head-to-head with Google’s Chromecast. With Over 1,200 apps available, a real remote and an onscreen interface, Roku performances better than Chromecast. But compare to Roku 3, it takes a longer time to boot up YouTube. It doesn’t have the neat headphone jack feature which is available on the Roku 3. And just like Roku 3, it cannot mirror iTunes videos to TV thanks to the DRM restriction.

iTunes to Roku: Mirror iTunes Videos to TV via Roku

As stated above, both Roku 3 and Roku Streaming Stick cannot mirror iTunes videos to TV due to the DRM Protection. To stream both iTunes purchases and rentals freely to Roku, the thing you should do is to convert iTunes M4V videos to regular formats supported by Roku.

M4VGear iTunes to Roku Converter (Windows/ Mac Version) is a powerful yet professional converter which can convert both iTunes rentals and purchases M4V movies and TV Shows to MP4 format supported by Roku with Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound and 100% lossless quality preserved.

Tutorial: How to Convert iTunes M4V Videos with 5.1 Audio Track Preserved?

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Equipment Preparation:

A computer with Windows OS or Mac OS

The latest version of iTunes

The latest version of M4VGear iTunes to Roku Converter

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Import iTunes videos to M4VGear

Click to launch M4VGear. Then you will go to the main interface of M4VGear, click "Add Movies" button to import the movies or TV Shows into the program.

Tip: If you want to add iTunes rentals to the program, you must make sure that the rentals are in valid period.

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Choose output format

Go to the bottom left of the interface to choose the output format you would like to convert the iTunes videos to. M4VGear can keep 5.1 audio track and all subtitles by default when you choose "Same as source for MP4" or "Same as source for MOV" as output format.

4

Set output directory and start conversion

Click M4VGear > Preferences to choose output directory, if you do not change directory manually, the converted files will be saved in the default folder. Then click "Convert" button to convert iTunes M4V to MP4 format supported by Roku. After conversion, you can find the files you've converted by clicking the "History" button.

Tip: After the progress bar showing up, iTunes will be shown and hide itself in a flash, and please don't control iTunes during converting, or conversion may fail.

Now, go and enjoy the iTunes videos on TV via Roku as you want.

Attention Please: The trial version of M4VGear is limited to converting the first 1 minute of the whole video. You can purchase the full version with $44.95 ($49.95) to remove the time restriction.

Video Tutorial: How to Convert iTunes Purchased and Rented Videos?

Extra Tips:

If you are an Apple Music subscriber and also want to convert Apple Music and iTunes M4P Audio. Apple Music Converter should be the best choice, which enables you to convert Apple Music tracks to plain MP3, AAC, FLAC and WAV format losslessly at 20X speed, while keeping all the ID tags and metadata.

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