Haven't set up your Apple TV yet, take a look at this guide of how to connect Apple TV to TV and iTunes which is a primary step before you sync iTunes with Apple TV.

The tutorials describe the step by step way about convert/ripping DVDs (either movie DVD or music video DVD) to Apple TV video format(MP4, MPEG-4, H.264), and converting all other popular movie files to Apple TV. The Apple TV converter software is easy to use, works flawlessly. Super fast conversion speed with high quality plus chapters/segments ripping modes give you everything you need to put DVD/video on Apple TV so you want watch them on your widescreen TV.

Before convert DVD to Apple TV or convert AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, Divx, MOV, XviD, RMVB, DVR-MS, ASF, MPG to iTune, let's take a look at the video formats which the Apple TV plays.

Video formats supported: H.264 and protected H.264 (from iTunes Store): 640 by 480, 30 fps, LC version of Baseline Profile; 320 by 240, 30 fps, Baseline profile up to Level 1.3; 1280 by 720, 24 fps, Progressive Main Profile. MPEG-4: 640 by 480, 30 fps, Simple Profile

Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps); protected AAC (from iTunes Store); MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps); MP3 VBR; Apple Lossless; AIFF; WAV

Part1: How to convert DVD to Apple TV.(Windows)
Part2: How to convert video files to Apple TV.(Windows)

Part3: How to convert DVD to Apple TV.(Mac)
Part4: How to convert video files to Apple TV.(Mac)

Part5: How to convert Youtube Video to Apple TV.(Windwows)


(1) Convert DVD to Apple TV video & rip DVD to Apple TV audio(Windows)

1. First download ‘DVD to Apple TV Converter suite for windows’ (the latest version) , install and run it. For more features about it, you can refer here.

2. Please insert the DVD you'd like to convert to the DVD drive.



3. Click 'File' menu and 'Open DVD', or directly hit 'Open' button to load the DVD. Set the profile to be Apple TV 640*480 mpeg-4 video which is the default DVD video quality.

4. Click around in the DVD's menu to set up DVD playback as you like, select the subtitle and audio sound tracks etc, then begin to play the movie through the software by click the play button.

5. The following window will pop up. Here, you can rename 'Title Name', set 'Save Path' and output quality, then click 'Yes' button to start ripping DVD to Apple TV MP4 or Apple TV H264 video from the point that the movie starts. That is all. Just so easy!




If you'd like to record from certain time point, or want to change some parameters like 'output format', 'video bitrates', 'frame rate', 'audio bitrates', please click 'No' button to close the window.


6. Optional parameters settings
* Select subtitles and languages
Click 'Subtitle' or 'Audio Track' in the 'Setting' menu, choose the related value you like.

* Set output formats
Choose the target file format from 'Profile'. The software supports converting DVD to Apple TV 1024*768 MP4 video, Apple TV 640*480 MP4 video, Apple TV 640*480 h264 video,iPod MP4 video, iPod h264 video, MP3 audio.



* Set the start time to convert
Use the video playback controls to queue up the point at which you want to start ripping. Or click 'Setting -> Go to' and jump to previous/next chapter.

* More parameters
Click 'Setting -> Output video settings', here you can choose different profile, video/audio bitrates, video size, disable video/audio, aspect ratio, frame/sample rate, etc.
If you are not familiar with these options, please view the descriptions listed at the bottom of the window.

* Crop/cut&Resize the movie
If you want to make the widescreen dvd(16:9) to be outputted as fullscreen(4:3) video, you can use the crop function.
Set Crop to "Crop both black bands" and resize to be "stretch to full screen" if you don't need to keep the subtitle.
Set crop to "Crop the upper black band" so you can keep the subtitle in the down black band.



* Direct/batch conversion
If you want to rip you DVD movie into one whole file, please use the direct ripping mode described above.
If you want to rip your DVD by chapters to into separated output files (for example your music DVDs, TV Episode DVDs), you can use the batch conversion rip mode, just ticket out the titles you want to convert and click convert.
You can switch this two modes by clicking on the mode-Direct&Batch.




7. Hit 'Convert' button, choose the recording time point and quality, then click 'Yes' to begin to convert DVD to Apple TV video or audio quickly.

8. After ripping, transfer the converted files to iTunes, and then sync to Apple TV.



(2) Step by step convert movies to Apple TV video (H.264, MP4, MPEG-4) and Apple TV audio (AAC, MP3), AVI to Apple TV, MPEG to Apple TV, WMV to Apple TV, MOV to Apple TV, DivX to Apple TV, Xvid to Apple TV, DVR-MS to Apple TV, RM to Apple TV, RMVB to Apple TV, ASF to Apple TV, AVS to Apple TV, MPG to Apple TV, AVS to Apple TV, FLV to Apple TV, MKV to Apple TV, NSV to Apple TV, OGG to Apple TV, OGM to Apple TV, TIVO to Apple TV, 3GP to Apple TV.(Windows)

1. First download ‘DVD to Apple TV Converter suite for windows’ (the latest version) , install and run it. For more features about it, you can refer here.

2. Click 'Open file' button to load the video file(s) you'd like to convert. The Apple TV converter software supports batch conversion mode.




3. The default output format is Apple TV 640*480 Mpeg-4 video. If you'd like to change this, click "Profile" button, set the output format to Apple TV video (Apple TV 1024*768 MP4 video, Apple TV 640*480 MP4 video, Apple TV 640*480 h264 video,iPod MP4 video, iPod h264 video) or Apple TV audio (MP3). Here, you can also set video size, frame rate and more.




4. Hit 'Convert' button to start converting video to Apple TV.

5. Transfer the converted video or audio files to iTunes library and sync them to Apple TV.



(3) How to Convert Rip DVD to Apple TV (for Mac users)?

DVD to Apple TV Converter provides several default Apple TV video profiles, which you can use converting your DVD to Apple TV Video MP4 formats. The profiles will help you get the video you like such as minimal size video, high quality video, etc. It also has many settings you can customize, for example, convert DVD to Apple TV mp4 video by custom file size through setting video bit rate, rip DVD’s any titles or chapters, and select target subtitle and audio track. You can get adjustable video what you want to play on your HD TV through Apple TV.

DVD to Apple TV Converter for Mac also can rip DVD movie to Apple TV straight with high video quality. It supports converting an entire DVD to one video file, and also supports ripping any segment by setting "start time" and "end time".

1.Download the latest DVD to Apple TV Mac Converter , install and run.



2.Insert the DVD movie you'd like to rip into the DVD drive,

3.Click "DVD" button to load your DVD, select the output format and set the optional parameters like audio track and subtitle,

4.Hit 'Convert' to start the iPod DVD conversion process.


(4) How to convert videos to Apple TV (for Mac)?

Apple TV Video Converter for Mac can not only convert AVI, MOV, MPEG, DivX, WMV, VOB, XviD to iPod video MP4, but also extract/convert media files to iPod audio M4a, MP3 on Mac, also it support batch conversion.It is easy to use.

1.Free download Apple TV Video Converte for Mac , install and run..

2.Load your video files by click the 'Add' button



3.Set your the audio channels, video size and frame rate etc or you can leave it to the default setting.

4.Click the "Encode" button, that's it!
Really easy to convert DVD and videos to Apple TV, right?! Enjoy!

Note: Before you start to sync iTunes videos to Apple TV, pls make sure you have the latest iTunes installed, Open your iTunes go to Help->Check for updates or download it directly from Apple - iTunes - Download iTunes


(5) Convert Youtube video to Apple TV (Windows)

Apple TV supports MPEG4 and H.264 video, youtube video is flv format. In order to put youtube video on Apple TV, you have to convert it to Apple TV format. Here is an online flv converter, free and very easy to use, just have to copy the youtube video URL to the URL box and click start. here is the online flv converter URL vixy.net : Online FLV Converter : Download online videos direct to PC / iPod / PSP. It's free!



After finish conversion, drag to iTunes library and sync to Apple TV, done!

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My Apple TV stopped working, first it started with being unable to connect to my ITunes Library. So I restored device to factory and now it is unable to authorize any content while trying to stream and absolutely won't sync any purchased content because "Apple TV Cannot Connect to the ITunes Store". Anyone else meet the same problem?

I have the problem some days ago, when I update the iTunes software, It is OK. You should try to install the latest iTunes.

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Apple launches Apple TV 2.0. The company has upgraded the capabilities of the devices to allow users to rent movies via the internet, download DVD and HD quality footage.Sounds great!

Yes, it is great. much better than the old Apple TV. Also, the movie rental service is very nice!

Anyone know if we can burn the itunes rentals movies to DVD to play on my TV? If so ,how?

Sure, you can try this guide, it works well.
http://www.dvdtoitunes.net/itunes-to-dvd.html

I encode cd's via the command line at 127 quality. For some reason not all the tracks will play on Apple TV. I get the error message that the file is in a format Apple TV does not recognize.The tracks play fine on my iPod and on my mac. Also it is not consistent. About 80% of the tracks play with no problem but there are a few that consistently will not play.Is there a solution short of re-encoding?

Why use the command line and why such an obscure bitrate.

127 isn't the bitrate. Its the quality setting. For whatever reason 127 translates as the highest quality in true vbr. So it gives the highest quality to the smallest file size. With Leopard they give access to the codec at the command line. iTunes encodes in a rather odd vbr format.

Not really sure in that case, could be a number of reasons why this occurs. Have you tried examining the exports using 'QT' or something like 'MediaInfo Mac' to see what differences there are between exports that work and those that don't.

The apple tv device looks nifty, but you have to have a widescreen tv. Can you get an adapter or converter that allows it to play on a normal tv or at least a vga monitor?

there is a why to make it play on sd tv's but it looks like crap... there is composite cables that come with the apple tv i believe... just hook those up to your sd tv