How to stream iTunes Store movies to WD TV Live Hub for watching on HDTV?

“I bought my WDTV live hub box a week ago. I’ve worked out how to get the WD TV to stream wirelessly from my office via my 2TB Goflex drive where all the media files are. Now I want to watch movies from my iTunes (Mac) on my TV via the WD TV Live Hub. Can I somehow use the iTunes music folder as a share? How do I do this? I know I probably can't watch DRM movies, but I have non-drm movies in my Library…”

The WD TV Live Hub Media Center allows for iTunes Music Server to be turned on or off. The iTunes server allows computers running iTunes to discover the WD TV Live Hub Media Center as a shared resource. For assistance enabling or disabling the iTunes Music Server please follow the instructions below:

1. Turn on your WD TV Live Hub.

2. From the main menu hit the LEFT or RIGHT arrows on your remote and locate the pink/purple Setup option in the menu. Once highlighted hit ENTER on the remote.

WD TV Live Hub Settings

3. Highlight Network Settings and press ENTER on the remote.

WD TV Live Hub Settings

4. Highlight iTunes Server and press ENTER on the remote.

WD TV Live Hub Settings

5. If you wish for the iTunes server to be enabled select On. If you would like it to be disabled select Off.

WD TV Live Hub Settings

6. Once you have selected the option you wish to use launch iTunes and verify that you are able to see the device. There you can stream videos from iTunes library to WD TV Live Hub.

Note: The media player does not support playback of protected premium content such as movies or music purchases from the iTunes Store. Only non-protected media can be streamed to from iTunes library to WD TV Live Hub.

Strip and Stream iTunes DRM movies to WD TV Live Hub

In order to stream iTunes store movies and TV shows (purchased DRM media) to WD TV Live Hub, you need a DRM-removing tool strip the protection in the first place. A recommended one is Mac ChewTune, a top iTunes M4V Converter for Mac handling iTunes DRM-protected videos and Windows Media DRM contents. Meanwhile the playback of the converted iTunes movie is smooth and decent as possible as original. Below is a detail guide for converting iTunes movies to WD TV for smoothly playing. If you use Windows PC, get ChewTune for Windows instead. The software also converts DRM protected movies from Cinema Now, Movielink, Amazon Unbox, and Vongo.

To use the iTunes DRM Converter on your Mac, it is required that iTunes latest version be installed and correctly configured, which means you’ll need to

1. Set iTunes not to remember playback position.
2. Set iTunes to 32bit when/if you use ChewTune on Mac OS X Lion.

Step 1: Assuming you have downloaded the iTunes movie to WD TV Converter to your Mac, the first step is run the program and put in password for user account as it requires.

DRM Settings

Step 2: Press the “Add” icon to browse to iTunes library movie folder. In Finder window, open Music-> iTunes-> iTunes Media-> specific movie folder-> single .m4v file, and then press on “Choose” Or directly drag and drop the iTunes m4v file to the program.

Chewtune for Mac

Step 3: Click on the “Format” bar to choose a format for iTunes video conversion for WD TV Live Plus or Live Hub. You’re suggested to choose “Common Video>> H.264 Video(*.mp4)” preset as it’s the best streaming media format for HD media players.

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start to convert iTunes movies to free MP4 videos. iTunes pops up automatically when conversion starts. Leave it be and don’t close iTunes till conversion completes.

After conversion you can press “Open” to find converted free movies and put the movies to Goflex drive or other NAS device for streaming to WD TV Live Hub, Live plus or the latest WD TV Play media player. Good luck!

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