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How Does Fairplay DRM Restrict The Playback Of Itunes Videos?

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Note: This tutorial only goes for converting purchased iTunes videos to MP4, but not for the rented.

If you have an iPhone, iPad, Mac or any other smart products from Apple, you must have purchased and will continue to buy some hot or favored movie/TV show/music videos from iTunes Store, more or less. Because iTunes Store this year will extend its movie support from SD, HD to trendy 4K, HDR or Dolby Vision. Currently, any movies except 4K ones can be downloaded for offline enjoyment. However, the built-in copy protection of iTunes (M4V) videos limits their playback devices! And that's exactly FairPlay DRM (digital rights management) tech developed by Apple itself.

How Does FairPlay DRM Restrict the Playback of iTunes Videos?
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How to Convert iTunes to MP4 on Windows (10) with WinX MediaTrans
To begin with, you're recommended to free download .exe package of WinX MedaiTrans on your Windows PC, and run it to finish the setup following the wizard. Then launch it to standby.

Note: We here just show you how to release M4V from DRM into MP4 on Windows, and Mac guide shares the same workflow. And the default path for output MP4 items are located in C:\Users\xx\Videos\MediaTrans. If you prefer other destination folder, just reset it under Settings in advance.

1.Guide on How to Convert iTunes M4V Video on iOS to MP4
Step 1. Connect your iDevice like iPhone X to computer rightly with official cable. And WinX MediaTrans will recognize it with device information shown on the interface.

Step 2. Click "Video Manager" module to access to another exclusive window with all of your iOS videos listed. Select one or more iTunes purchased videos with "DRM locked" sign you'd like to transfer to MP4.

Step 3. Tap "Export" button on the top left, and a smaller encrypted video list window would pop up, where you need to click "Decode" to start the iTunes to MP4 conversion. 2.Guide on How to Convert iTunes M4V Video on Computer to MP4
To make any iTunes downloaded videos from iTunes Library stored on your PC free of DRM, the first thing is to make sure "Share iTunes Library XML with other applications" option under iTunes -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced is

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