Q: “ I have purchased some DVDs for the comming thanksgiving day. How to paly them on my Apple TV 4 for sharing with my families? I dont wanna use some additional equipment if it’s not necessary. What I need is a simple way to do the trick without spending money? ” 
The new Apple TV 4 gives you free to watch Movies and TV shows from iTunes with 720p and 1080p quality on your HDTV. However, Apple TV 4 can’t play DVD movies via Macbook and Windows computer directly, you have to rip DVD to a digital format video on your computer, then stream movies to Apple TV 4 via iTunes., Now, we will introduce a step by step guide on how to rip DVD to Apple TV 4 supported video format effortlessly.
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Guide: How to convert DVD to Apple TV 4 via Plex Media Server on Mac?
Step 1.After installing, launch the DVD Converter app on your Mac. and then press “Load Disc” icon to import DVD movie. Choose “File > Load from ISO/IFO” if you’d like to import DVD ISO image file. 
Step 2.In order to airplay DVD movies to Apple TV 4, you need choose a compatible format for Apple TV 4 playing. Here I recommend you click the format bar and choose “Apple TV > Apple TV 3 1080P Dolby Digital Pass-through(*.m4v)”. Then you can set the output folder by clicking “Browse” icon as you need. 
Step 3.Click “Settings” icon, you can adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality. 
Step 4.Finally you need hit the “Convert” button to start to rip “DVD to Apple TV 4 M4V” for playback. After the conversion, you can copy DVD movie to your Plex Media Server and then be able to enjoy DVD movies through Apple TV 4.
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