How to Convert the M4V to MP4 on Mac OS X?

.m4v vs .mp4

* MPEG-4 Part 14 (Moving Picture Expert Group-4), or simply mp4, is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most commonly used to store digital video and digital audio streams. The only official filename extension for MPEG-4 files is .mp4, which is supported by most devices. M4V, on the other hand, is a multimedia file format specifically designed for Apple video products such as the iPhone, iTunes store, and iPod.

* Since m4v is deeply associated with Apple Inc., m4v files are more often than not protected by a copyright — Apple’s FairPlay DRM copyright protection. These files with the .m4v file extension could only be played on a computer authorized by iTunes. Then again, unprotected m4v files can still be opened using other players if one changes the extension into .mp4.

Then how could we change the .m4v to .mp4? Well here below we will show you a tutorial on how to convert .m4v to .mp4 with Noteburner on Mac OS.

How to Change .m4v to .mp4 on Mac?

What will you need?
There’s a few .m4v to .mp4 converter, and the most popular M4V converter is Noteburner M4V Converter Plus for Mac, which is being using by many people. Noteburner M4V Converter for Mac takes a record method to remove the DRM and convert the .m4v to .mp4 at the same time, with no loss of quality, it needs a few clicks, you can wait for the converted .mp4 files while doing other things.

Here below is the step-by step tutorial:

Step 1. Run Noteburner M4V Converter for Mac.

Step 2. Add DRM M4V iTunes movies: Click Add button, and iTunes movies library will be opened by default. You can choose videos from it and click OK.

Step 3. Set the output format and the output folder: if you want to get the best quality of the converted .mp4 files, please set the output format as Same as Source (*.mp4).


While you can also set the output format as Customized Video format (.mp4).



And set the video size as the same as the original size.


Step 4. Click Convert to start to change the .m4v to .mp4 format.
Only with a few clicks, you can wait for Noteburner converting the files to .mp4 while doing other works, and the converted .mp4 files can be copied to any devices such as Android, Nokia, Samsung, Blackberry etc.

* Free download M4V to MP4 Converter

. Please note since Noteburner takes a record method to convert the .m4v file, it may take the same long time as the playback time of the original files.

. With Noteburner m4v converter, you can convert M4V to many other common formats such as AVI, MOV and FLV for playing on many non-apple devices. If you are a Windows user, you maybe interested in how to Convet M4V to MP4 Converter for Win.