How to Watch iTunes Movies and TV shows on Roku

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on September 01, 2021

• Select your language:
• English

  Arabic Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Kazakh Korean Malay Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese

Roku is one of the most popular digital media players in the United States. Similar to a Plex server or Chromecast, you can connect it to a TV via a cable to stream movies, videos, etc. There are four set-top box models currently available through Roku's website, Roku 1, 2, 3 and 4. It becomes tricky when you want to transfer purchased iTunes movies to Roku for playback.

We have repeatedly reminded that all movies, TV episodes, music videos, etc. from iTunes are encoded by Apple DRM, so that they can only be played on Apple authorized devices, such as Apple TV, iPhone/iPad, etc. These encrypted files are extended with .m4v, while Roku supports MKV (H.264), MP4 (H.264), MOV (H.264), WMV (VC-1 only, firmware 3.1). If you want to watch iTunes movies on Roku, you need to convert DRM-ed M4V to the universal video format supported by Roku. In the article, we give detailed guidelines for streaming and playing iTunes movies or TV shows on Roku by deleting DRM and losslessly converting iTunes-protected M4V movies to MP4.

Best iTunes to Roku Converter - UkeySoft M4V Converter

UkeySoft M4V Converter was born to get rid of DRM from iTunes movies, TV episodes, music videos. With its help, you can convert any iTunes-protected video to MP4, MOV, WMV and many other common video formats with a 30x faster speed. The original subtitles, audio tracks, AC3 5.1 surround and HD resolution would be kept in the converted MP4 video. In the case, you can transfer and watch iTunes movies and TV shows on Roku without any problem.

The following is a step by step guide about how to convert rented or purchased iTunes movies to Roku friendly MP4 format with UkeySoft M4V Converter, Get it now on your Mac or Window computer.

How to Watch Purchased or Rented iTunes Movies/TV Shows on Roku

Things You'll Need:

A Mac/Windows computer with the latest version of iTunes
iTunes Movies/TV Shows in your iTunes library
UkeySoft M4V Converter fro Mac or UkeySoft M4V Converter for Windows

Step 1. Start UkeySoft M4V Converter
Download, install and run UkeySoft M4V Converter on your Mac or Windows. As you can see, iTunes will be opened automatically and loads all the content in the iTunes library, including downloaded iTunes movies.

Step 2. Select iTunes Movies and TV Shows
Click on the "Add Files" icon to upload the iTunes movies and TV shows from iTunes Library to UkeySoft directly, or you can also simply drag&drop the M4V movies to the main interface.

Click the name of the movie that you want to convert, then the movie will be added to the conversion list. Click on "Add" to go on.

Step 3. Choose Output Audio Tracks and Subtitles
The UkeySoft M4V Converter uses MP4 as outout video format by default and all original subtitles and audio tracks would be kept.

Step 4. Start Conversion
Simply click on the "Convert" button to removing DRM protection from your purchased iTunes movies and you are able to convert multiple movies at the same time. The quality of the output video will be lossless.

Now, your purchased or rented iTunes movies and TV shows are converted to Roku supported MP4 videos. You can find converted MP4 files by clicking on the "History" icon.

Part 2: How to Sync and Play Converted iTunes Movies on Roku

Transfer iTunes Movies to Roku with USB Connetion

You can transfer the DRM-free MP4 videos on your USB drive if you are using Roku 2, 3, 4 or Ultra which include a USB port. Then insert it into the USB port on your Roku device. Now you can use Roku Media Player to play converted iTunes movies and TV shows smoothly.

Sync iTunes Movies to Roku without USB Connetion

To play iTunes movies on your Roku using DLAN if your Roku device don’t have a USB port. The Roku Media Player has been tested to work with the following DLNA servers:

• Windows Media Player/Center
• Serviio
• Plex
• Twonky
• MiniDLNA/ReadyDLNA/ReadyMedia
• PlayOn

To play iTunes movies on Roku via Plex server

Step 1. Install Plex server on your Mac. Once done, the Plex server will locate all multimedia files on your Mac, including movies, television shows, and music.

Step 2. Install Plex Channel onto Roku box, and then Configure Plex on the Roku.

After Plex server configuration, you can now stream your converted iTunes movies directly to Roku and play iTunes movies or TV Shows on Roku successfully.

Justin Sabrina

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Justin Sabrina

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Justin Sabrina

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

Comments

1. No comment yet. Say something...

Prompt: you need to log in before you can comment.
No account yet. Please click here to register.