How To Download Movies Into Your iPod

The iPod is touted to be the single greatest inventionplay on your iPod.
ever to come out as far as multimedia handling isConversion
concerned. The day the first iPod came out, it wasIt's hard to find movies in the mpeg4 format because
clear that Apple would be ahead of the mp3 marketmost are already on DVD and if there are any
by light years. They took it a step further with the iPoddownloadable ones online (your legal choices are very
video. And this is where it started to become a littlefew), they are in other formats. There is, however, a
more complicated.solution to all of this. You will need to use a movie
For years, the iPod was known as an mp3 device andconverter. There are many different converters that
people marveled at the ease of use they experiencedyou can buy online and some of them are free.
with one of these babies in their hands. These days, toBasically, these programs will convert WMV's and
buy an iPod means that you have to know how toAVI's into the iPod format mpeg 4. Some examples of
use it. After all, the iPod of today handles more thansuch programs are IMTOO iPod Movie converter, or
just music. And that's where the problem lies-someeven Lonely Cats SmartMovie Converter which is
people are at a loss when it comes to syncing videosmore or less used to convert movies into a mobile
into their iPod videos.format such as the iPod. They are simple enough
The First Stepprograms to use and most can be found with a
Of course, not all iPods can play videos so it goessearch on a site like Google or Yahoo Search. There
without saying that you first need the right hardwareare also other programs that will allow you to convert
to be able to view videos. Only iPod video models cansome of your favorite DVDs into the mpeg4 format
actually play videos. What you want to do now isdirectly.
figure out what videos you want to place into yourTransfer
iPod and also check how much space you have left inOnce you have figured out how to convert and have
your iPod. Videos are quite large and in the iPodsome files ready to transfer to your iPod, all you have
format, a full movie can go over 400MB. That's a lot ofto do is open iTunes and plug in your iPod video. Once
space and the more movies you want to store in it,it syncs, you can then click and drag the files into your
the more space you will need.iPod much like you would with music. It's that simple
Know The Formatand only a company like Apple could have made it that
Videos come in all sorts of sizes and formats. This isway.
essential because some people think that if a videoThe difficulty in downloading movies into your iPod is
can be played on the computer, it can play on the iPod.not in the way the files are transferred. It is actually
This is far from the truth. iPods usually take in a formatfinding the right format for your iPod and converting
known as mpeg4; the file extension for this is mp4 andother format videos into that format. With a little
you must have stumbled upon that somewhere. This isresearch, you can become an iPod syncing expert in
the only format that the iPod plays so if you see athe shortest time possible.
WMV, or an AVI, touch luck. These formats will not