Burning a CD or DVD ROM to read on home DVD player

hello,
I wish to burn on a CD or a DVD a downloaded video I purchased on the iTune Store in order to watch the movie on a home DVD player.
1-As the file format is .m4v, do I have first to change it to .avi or other?
2-how do I burn the CD or DVD?
thank you

Patrick Amarger wrote:
I wish to burn on a CD or a DVD a downloaded video I purchased on the iTune Store in order to watch the movie on a home DVD player.
sorry, but you can only burn purchased movies to CD/DVD for backup purposes, not for viewing on a DVD player.
JGG

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