IPod Q - what can I download to Ipod video (and how ?)
IPod Q - what can I download to Ipod video (and how ?)
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anonymous-user

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84 months

Wednesday 15th March 2006
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wanty1974

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278 months

Wednesday 15th March 2006
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As far as I'm aware, you can import any video into your iPod as you can photos from your PC. There should be an import tool within iTunes itself which will then get the stuff into iTune so that your iPod will then be updated.

You may have guessed that I haven't done it in a few months so can't be more definite!

NickFRP

5,156 posts

265 months

Wednesday 15th March 2006
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go on the net and you can get a program to convert any video files to a IPOD format so you can watch it on you pod. i havent got a pod video yet but i have a DVD ripping software which also does Ipod Video as well .

its called DVD Ripper..

robbieduncan

1,993 posts

266 months

Wednesday 15th March 2006
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You can use any MPEG-4 or H264 encoded video within a certain frame size. You cannot use WMV, DivX, XVid etc without transcoding them to MPEG-4 or H264.

anonymous-user

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84 months

Wednesday 15th March 2006
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How did you do this I thought that you need a credit card with a U.S. postal address?

anonymous-user

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84 months

Wednesday 15th March 2006
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Good for you! It pi$$es me off that we pay more to download music than most countries on iTunes. When there can be NO extra costs involved.

I hope we get some of the TV stuff soon aswell.

foreright

1,092 posts

272 months

Wednesday 15th March 2006
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http://keepvid.com/ has a function for exporting to iPod video format if that helps.

SpencerO

524 posts

273 months

Wednesday 15th March 2006
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I use

www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

not perfect - but easy enough to use. There is a very good tutorial out there but I can find it at the mo. Will have a look later. rgds

sneijder

5,231 posts

264 months

Wednesday 15th March 2006
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Got one yesterday, been playing with this : www.centralparkmedia.com/ipod/

You can drag the file out of 'my pictures' or wherever and drop it into itunes and it sorts itself out.

Lois

14,706 posts

282 months

Thursday 16th March 2006
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World's your oyster then cheeky

trinitycall

655 posts

266 months

Thursday 16th March 2006
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just got an ipod video and downloaded The Matrix on it. absolutely superb quality.

You can download any DVD onto your ipod by using Cucusoft DVD to iPod Converter. And the good news is that you don't need to be a techy. It even puts it into your itunes software which automatically syncs with ipod when ipod connected (i.e. downloads the movie onto the ipod).

The matrix is a 2h10min (ish) film and takes up 0.7gig (700mb) ish. So on a 30 or 60gb ipod there is loads of room.

Also downloaded the pussycat dolls music video (just as a ..ahem..test)... loving the music video stuff.

Regards,

N

thebluemonkey

1,296 posts

270 months

Thursday 16th March 2006
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www.podtropolis.com is pretty good for getting the latest lost episodes and pretty much all American TV.

thebluemonkey

1,296 posts

270 months

Sunday 19th March 2006
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You need a bittorent client,as all the files that you download off that website are basically identification markers telling the bittorent client where the files are located on other peoples computers(hence why they are so small), the official one from www.bittorrent.com/ is supposed to be quite good but I use a mac so I'm not sure. Each bittorent program has its own quirks so your probably better off following the tutorial that comes with it. Once you have downloaded the video file you can just import it to itunes directly (File>Import) as they are h.264 files and scaled for the ipod. If you go to videos on the left hand in the playlist list you can then drag and drop the videos that come up onto the symbol of the ipod in the playlist list.