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How to Convert Videos for Playback on Apple TV?

Are you eager to put your movies, TV shows or videos into your beloved Apple TV and enjoy them on wide screen? A robust Apple TV video converter is what you need. This guide will show you how to convert the incompatible videos to Apple TV for enjoyment. Let's learn more here.

Why Apple TV can attract all our attention:

It is a tiny digital media player which allows you to enjoy a whole world of movies, TV shows, sports, music, and more. So far, the latest version of Apple TV is the third generation, in up to 1080p HD. The device also plays content from any Mac OS X, iOS device or Windows with AirPlay or iTunes.

Apple TV is compatible with the following video formats:

H.264 up to 720p at 30 frames per second (1st & 2nd generation)
H.264 up to 1080p at 30 frames per second (3rd generation)
MPEG-4 up to 720x432 (432p) or 640x480 pixels at 30 frame/s
Motion JPEG up to 720p at 30 frame/s.

Pavtube Video Converter is here to make some other incompatible videos to Apple TV for playback. With this all-in-one converter, you can don't have to worry about the incompatible format problem and can load your source files into Apple TV for free playback. With the powerful inner coder, you don't have to download other codec package to start your converison. For newbie, multiple presets are here for you to choose, which make the conversion easily to handle.

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How could we add some other incompatible videos to Apple TV for playback?

If the video or audio stream from original file isn't supported by Apple TV, you have to re-encode it. This means converting the streams to a different codec, bitrates or resolution and save it in a compatible container file format (like .m4v). This is time-consuming and could cause a loss in quality. Pavtube Video Converter can do this job well, do you all wanna a try?

Step 1. Launch this converter on your PC

We need to open it and tap the click "File">"Add Video/Audio" to load our original MKV, AVI, VOB, TiVo, flv, etc, files in.

Step 2.Choose the right output formats as next step.

Just come to the output list, especially for Apple TV, we here highly introduce you the "HD Video">"H.264 HD Video (*.MP4)" item as the best one.

For advanced functions?

Click the "Effect" button to open the Video Edit window to achieve editing MP4 like trim, crop, image, watermark, effect, subtitles and rotate and etc in the corresponding editing pane.

Click the "Settings" button to open the Advanced Settings window to adjust the output video codec, resolution, bitrates, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio codec, channel, volume and etc in the advanced tab.

Finally, just go back to the main interface to find the "Convert" to get the work started. With this strong Apple TV converter, are still worrying about how to watch those high definition movies on Apple TV? Just have a try by yourself!

Here is an article to teach you how to transfer your files into Apple TV for newbie to begin with.

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