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