How-to: Play Amazon Instant Video on Microsoft Surface 2/Pro 2 smoothly?

“I was attempting to legally remove the DRM file from an Amazon digital movie that I purchased, so I could load it on my Surface 2, but I’ve tried many different programs without success. Any help would be appreciated.”
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Amazon brings in “Instant Video” for its members to enjoy thousands of TV shows, movies and videos, and people tend to purchase and download videos from Amazon, which are considered extremely convenient. In fact, it is not as easily used as Amazon claims. This kind of WMV videos are usually DRM protected and can be watched only on certain devices including Amazon Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. For other smartphones or tablets you own like the newly released Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, Amazon Instant Video is a compatible video format.

To watch Amazon Instant Video on Surface 2/Pro 2, you need remove DRM protection first, then convert it to Surface 2/Pro 2 suitable MP4 file. With the Amazon WMV to Surface converter, two procedures can easily be finished in simply three steps. Below article shows you the detailed instruction.

How-to: Play Amazon Instant Video on Microsoft Surface 2/Pro 2 smoothly?

Get prepared:
1. Free download Amazon Video converter on your computer (Mac version available here)
2. Make sure Windows Media Player can play the Amazon Instant Video
3. Allow the audio driver installed the first time of Pavtube ChewTune installation.

Step 1: Import Amazon Instant Video

Click on the “Add video” button, browser to Amazon Instant Video folder and import one Amazon WMV video to this app.
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NOTE: You could also import multiple Amazon Instant Videos at the same time by choosing “Add from folder”.

Step 2: Choose Surface 2/Pro 2 playable output format
Tap on the “Format”, from the drop-down list and choose “Windows” > “Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 Video (*.mp4)” as output format.

NOTE: When you have trouble locating same profile for your portable device, choose a similar one or use “Common video for Android and Apple Devices(*.mp4)” under “Common Video” category, and customize profile presets to get better video and audio quality for playback.

Step 3: Legally convert Amazon WMV video
Hit the big “Convert” icon on Amazon WMV to MP4 converter interface and start converting Amazon Instant Video.
Because of 1:1 video recording, it takes as long as the source movie length to finish the whole ChewTune DRM-free process to preserve almost same video quality in saved MP4 file.

Once the conversion completes, click the “Open” icon to locate the recorded Amazon Instant Video, and you are ready to transfer it to your Surface 2/Pro 2.
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NOTE: Pavtube ChewTune supports loading multiple Amazon DRM WMV files and converting them one by one, you could leave the program running overnight, and get all videos recorded the next morning. Don’t forget to set up Windows power options to never turn off monitor or never let the computer system standby.