Play iTunes Movies on Xbox One/360? Get It!

Developed by Microsoft, Xbox is world’s most powerful game console. Now it’s also an all-in-one entertainment system for playing amazing videos with family from local devices and online services, like Amazon Instant Video. But there is no iTunes app built-in Xbox One, meaning that iTunes movies and TV shows are not able to be playable on Xbox One/360 straightforwardly. If you don’t would like to miss the biggest video source, iTunes store, you can visit this article to find out the best solution on playing iTunes videos on Xbox One and 360 with no efforts.

Part 1. Everything You Should Know about iTunes Videos & Xbox

From what we have talked above, we can see that all the game consoles are integrated with the features to play videos, however, they can't play iTunes videos. The obvious reason is that they are DRM protected and encoded with M4V container format. With that protection, iTunes videos can only play within Apple's ecosystem devices and players only.

In consequence, the only solution to play iTunes videos on Xbox currently is to remove DRM and convert them to an Xbox compatible format of videos like AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV and so on. DRmare DRM Converter  for Mac is one of the great DRM converting software which can help you get the job done quickly. It empowers you to eliminate the DRM with little effort and it also has the optimized preset profile for Xbox.

Part 2. Tutorial to Convert iTunes DRM Videos to Xbox

Here I will take the DRmare iTunes to Xbox Video Converter for Mac to illustrate how it works on converting iTunes DRM-locked movies and TV shows to Xbox compatible formats step by step.

Step 1. If you have already downloaded and authorized the videos to play on your iTunes, then please just drag and drop them from iTunes to DRM iTunes to Xbox Video Converter main screen directly. Else please try to download the iTunes video onto the computer first.

Step 2. Depending on your personal preference, you can either choose a compatible format you want directly or select the output Xbox profile. Here I will send the output device as 'Xbox One'.

Step 3. You can press the 'Conversion' button from the lower right of the software main interface to start to convert. DRmare iTunes to Xbox converter will convert the videos and strip the FairPlay DRM protection during the process.

Part 3. How to Play DRM-free iTunes Videos on Xbox 360/Xbox One

In the end, you can get the converted DRM free videos and you can start to play them. There are many ways to play local videos videos on Xbox such as you can play via USB directly or stream the videos from from a computer.

Play iTunes videos via USB drive

You just need to put the videos on a USB thumb drive or an external hard drive and plug it into your Xbox host. Then you can click 'Media' menu > Open the Video Player > Select to play from USB.

Stream videos with the Xbox 'PlayTo' feature

To do so, please enable the 'PlayTo' settings first:

Home > Settings > System > Console Settings > Connected Devices and then turn on 'PlayTo' feature

After that you can, go to your computer, install and launch the Xbox Video app, finally select a video from the Xbox Video app and choose 'Devices' as your Xbox 360/Xbox One, then click 'Play'. Please make sure the Xbox and your computer are connected to the same network, else you may fail to find the device.

Apart from USB flash drive and PlayTo function, there are also two other solutions for you to convert iTunes unprotected videos to Xbox One/360, respectively via Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center or from Plex. The tutorial is very simple, so here I don’t give the step-to-step guide. In short, which way to use depends on your requirement.