Written by The Google Nexus 7 is great for watching movies. In this HOW-TO, I will show you the way syncing and playing iTunes movies on Nexus 7.
With over one million pixels on a stunning 7″ display, the Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) Tablet really rocks for watching movies. If you have ever purchased some videos (TV shows / Movies) from iTunes store, you may want to copy them to your Nexus 7 Talet for enjoying on the go. However, things turn to be different when you’re trying to sync and play iTunes videos on Goolge Nexus 7, you’re only told that the Android 4.1 Tablet cannot play them because of the Apple’s FairPlay DRM.
To play a protected iTunes m4v files, the device need to needs to be authorized (using iTunes) with the account that was used to purchase the video. Unfortunately, the Android-based device has not got a license to play DRM contents, which means iTunes videos will not work on Nexus 7 Tablet. In order to transfer movies/TV shows from iTunes to Google Nexus 7, you may have to remove iTunes movie DRM restriction first and convert iTunes movies to Nexus 7 supported videos (e.g. h.264 mp4).
Below, I will throw up a quick tutorial for you, guaranteed to get iTunes and Google Nexus 7 to play nicely.
Software Availability
ChewTune (available for Mac or for Windows users). Get the Windows version here. and the Mac version here.
Instructions
ChewTune is a great iTunes m4v Converter for Android which can easily handle DRM-protected contents including iTunes and Digital Copies coming with Blu-ray/DVD discs. Meanwhile the playback of the converted videos is as decent as possible as original. You can use the tool to sync iTunes videos with more Android-based Tablets. Just download and follow the steps below to transfer iTunes movies to Google Nexus 7.
Converting iTunes M4V files for playback with Google Nexus 7
1. Install, launch the iTunes to Nexus 7 Converter on your PC, and then add iTunes videos to the software.
2. Choose output format. Click “Format” bar, follow “Android > Google Nexus 7 H.264 Video (*.mp4)”. It’s the particular format pre-set for Nexus 7. You can click “Settings” to change the video resolution, encoder, frame rate, etc.
3. Click the big “Convert” button to start to transfer iTunes m4v to Google Nexus 7 mp4 videos.
Once the process completes, you can transfer the result videos to Nexus 7. So there you have it. Now you can start viewing iTunes movies on Google Nexus 7 as you want.
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