The latest version includes two running modes, one is "Direct Mode" , the other is "Batch Mode" .--"Direct Mode" means that user can directly click the DVD Menu to select the movie they want to rip.
This mode is very easy for ripping a movie DVD's.
--"Batch Mode" means that user can select the DVD titles/chapters they want to rip via checkbox list.
This mode is very easy for batch ripping Music DVD's, MTV DVD's and Episodic DVD's.

• Support almost all kinds of DVD to Apple TV format
• Support almost all video file including DVD, vob, DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, WMV, AVI, dvr-ms, etc. to Apple TV video (MP4 format)
• Support "Drag and Drop" in Apple TV Video Converter software.
• Support for Subtitle Selection in "DVD to Apple TV Converter", eg. English Subtitle, French Subtitle ....
  --Under "Direct Mode", through DVD menu.
  --Under "Batch Mode", through DVD Title list.
• Support for Audio Track Selection in DVD to Apple TV Converter, eg. English audio track,French audio track.....
  --Under "Direct Mode", through DVD menu.
  --Under "Batch Mode", through DVD Title list.
• Various kinds of video crop mode. eg. 16:9, 4:3, full screen and so on.
• Various kinds of video resize mode, eg. "Keep aspect ratio" and "stretch to fix screen".
• "DVD to Apple TV Converter" support splitting output video by DVD chapters, and titles. Fully support MTV DVDs and Episodic DVDs.
• Support customize output video file size and video quality.
• Provide flexible output profiles, user can easily customize the video properties.
• "DVD to Apple TV Converter" Support DVD to MP3 audio conversion.
• Support Dolby, DTS Surround audio track.

The article includes two parts:

Part 1: How to convert DVD to Apple TV. (Windows) ?
Part 2: How to convert video files to Apple TV. (Windows) ?

 Part1: Convert DVD to Apple TV video & rip DVD to Apple TV audio(Windows)
1.First download the latest version of Cucusoft DVD to Apple TV Converter Suite at here, install and run it.


2. Run the DVD to Apple TV Converter, load your DVD by clicking 'Open DVD' button or choosing
'Open DVD' from 'File' drop down menu. One or several titles appear in the list after loading DVD.



3. Click 'File' menu and 'Open DVD', or directly hit 'Open' button to load the DVD. Set the profile to be Apple TV 640*480 mpeg-4 video which is the default DVD video quality.
4. Click around in the DVD's menu to set up DVD playback as you like, select the subtitle and audio sound tracks etc, then begin to play the movie through the software by click the play button.
5. The following window will pop up. Here, you can rename 'Title Name', set 'Save Path' and output quality, then click 'Yes' button to start ripping DVD to Apple TV MP4 or Apple TV H264 video from the point that the movie starts. That is all. Just so easy!



If you'd like to record from certain time point, or want to change some parameters like 'output format', 'video bitrates', 'frame rate', 'audio bitrates', please click 'No' button to close the window.
6. Optional parameters settings
* Select subtitles and languages
Click 'Subtitle' or 'Audio Track' in the 'Setting' menu, choose the related value you like.
* Set output formats
Choose the target file format from 'Profile'. The software supports converting DVD to Apple TV 1024*768 MP4 video, Apple TV 640*480 MP4 video, Apple TV 640*480 h264 video,iPod MP4 video, iPod h264 video, MP3 audio.

Set the start time to convert
Use the video playback controls to queue up the point at which you want to start ripping. Or click 'Setting -> Go to' and jump to previous/next chapter.
* More parameters
Click 'Setting -> Output video settings', here you can choose different profile, video/audio bitrates, video size, disable video/audio, aspect ratio, frame/sample rate, etc.
If you are not familiar with these options, please view the descriptions listed at the bottom of the
window.
* Crop/cut&Resize the movie
If you want to make the widescreen dvd(16:9) to be outputted as fullscreen(4:3) video, you can use the crop function.
Set Crop to "Crop both black bands" and resize to be "stretch to full screen" if you don't need to keep the subtitle.
Set crop to "Crop the upper black band" so you can keep the subtitle in the down black band.

Direct/batch conversion
If you want to rip you DVD movie into one whole file, please use the direct ripping mode described above.
If you want to rip your DVD by chapters to into separated output files (for example your music DVDs, TV Episode DVDs), you can use the batch conversion rip mode, just ticket out the titles you want to convert and click convert.
You can switch this two modes by clicking on the mode-Direct&Batch.


7. Hit 'Convert' button, choose the recording time point and quality, then click 'Yes' to begin to convert DVD to Apple TV video or audio quickly.
8. After ripping, transfer the converted files to iTunes, and then sync to Apple TV.

Part2: Step by step convert movies to Apple TV video (H.264, MP4, MPEG-4) and Apple TV audio (AAC, MP3) . (Windows)
1. First download the latest version of Cucusoft DVD to Apple TV Converter Suite at here, install and run it.
  2. Click 'Open file' button to load the video file(s) you'd like to convert. The Apple TV converter software supports batch conversion mode.


3. The default output format is Apple TV 640*480 Mpeg-4 video. If you'd like to change this, click "Profile" button, set the output format to Apple TV video (Apple TV 1024*768 MP4 video, Apple TV 640*480 MP4 video, Apple TV 640*480 h264 video,iPod MP4 video, iPod h264 video) or Apple TV audio (MP3). Here, you can also set video size, frame rate and more.



4. Hit 'Convert' button to start converting video to Apple TV.
5. Transfer the converted video or audio files to iTunes library and sync them to Apple TV.Well done

Minimum Requirements

• Software requirements:
  Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows, Vista, Windows 2003 Server, etc.       DirectX 8.0 or later.
• Hardware requirements:
  MMX-enhanced CPU or more powerful           32 MB RAM or more