Best Tutorial to Convert iTunes M4V to FLV to Share with Others Online

Have you ever encountered a problem that it takes a long time to upload a video and it fails unexpectedly? If so, it is mostly like that you are uploading a big file at a low internet connection speed. At this point, converting your videos to a low size video such as FLV is an alternative solution. FLV means flash video, is born for streaming online with smallest size. If you have some wonderful video like iTunes videos , you may want to share them online with your friends or family members. Here in this post, I will show you how to convert iTunes DRM M4V videos to FLV in a easiest way.

Part 1. Best Converting Tool to Convert iTunes M4V to FLV

If you are a long time user of iTunes, you may have already known that most digital media contents on iTunes are encoded with the FairPlay DRM scheme. This is created for limiting the videos from copying and distributing everywhere. Hence, the feasible solution to share iTunes videos is to break the FairPlay DRM protection at the first place. Several years ago, the smart and handy open source tool Requiem can help to solve the issue perfectly. However it was discontinued in 2012 and it doesn’t work any more. But don’t worry. Alternatively you can turn to other third party iTunes video software for help, such as DRmare M4V to FLV Converter for Mac, a most convenient iTunes DRM destructor. You can use it to remove DRM and convert iTunes M4V to FLV in a fast and elegant manner. Besides, please make sure you have the latest version of iTunes on your computer as DRmare software depends on it to run smoothly. Also, we’d recommend you to use the software on a Mac computer instead of a Windows if you want to get multiple output video formats.

Part 2. Convert DRM M4V Videos to FLV in a Fast Way

Once you have all the required tools ready, you can start to remove DRM from iTunes videos in a significantly easy way. Here I will take the Mac version to demonstrate how it works in converting iTunes M4V to FLV step by step.

Step 1: Add DRM M4V movies from iTunes

When you launch the DRmare software, iTunes will be opened automatically. You can find the iTunes videos which are downloaded completely and then drag and drop to load them to the DRmare M4V to FLV Converter main screen directly. But if you’d rather not drag and drop, you can also navigate to the bottom left of the software screen to find and click the ‘+’ icon. DRmare software will pop up a window to browse your videos from iTunes library.

Step 2: Select FLV video profile under ‘Web Video’ tab

Next, you can go ahead to click the format icon, you will see a pop up panel to select the output format. From there, you can navigate to the ‘Web Video’ tab and select ‘FLV’ as the output format. Besides that, DRmare M4V to FLV Converter also offers multiple options for you to customize the videos like bit rate, frame rate, codec and so on, you can simply click the small gear icon above the ‘FLV’ format icon to open the settings window.

Step 3: Convert iTunes M4V movies  to FLV

Please check twice to make sure everything is set as you required, then you can click the conversion button from the bottom right side. DRmare iTunes M4V Converter will remove FairPlay DRM and encode them to the new FLV videos. Once it is done, you will get the videos in FLV format in a smallest size. Typically 1 minute video only has about 1MB.

Part 3. More Details about FLV Format You Should Know

It is really great to sharing iTunes videos by converting them to FLV format. But it is not ideal actually. That is because FLV videos are usually encoded with H.263, so the video quality are at SD quality. Though it supports to encode with H.264, there still some streaming issues and some players won’t support it so well. Consequently, Adobe has released a new format F4V as an upgrade format of FLV which is based on H.264 codec and it is similar to MP4. If you don’t care about the file size so much but want to have higher quality, you may try to convert iTunes M4V videos to F4V too. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave your comments below.