Ipod Touch Applications

Have you bought a brand new iPod and want to transfer some DVD videos into it? Are you going for a long holiday and want to carry some of your huge collection DVD videos with you to entertain yourself? You will soon find the iTunes that has come with the iPod is unable to convert the DVD video files (VOB) into some format that your iPod can understand. Therefore, you need a software that will do the job for you.

There are other benefits of converting DVD videos to your iPod. Of course, you won’t like paying huge membership charge that has to be compensated to some websites to download the iPod compatible movies or other videos directly to your iPod. In my opinion, the best solution is to get a software that will convert the DVD videos directly to the iPod compatible format.

This software is categorized as ‘DVD Ripper’ as you are ripping the movie from its original source and converting it to iPod compatible format. The ‘How to do it yourself’ guide that comes with the software will tell you the process of ripping. Once you have converted the DVD files to the iPod compatible files, you need iTunes to transfer them to your iPod. The process is neither cumbersome, nor it takes much time to complete the entire process.

You may find several ‘DVD to iPod Converter’ software in the internet. Depending upon your budget and expertise, you may purchase any one. The following points have to be checked before purchasing the software. They should –

• Have batch conversion facility.

• Have multithreading and merger facility.

• Have crop and trim function.

• Conversion speed should be much faster than the normal playing speed.

• Normal video customization features like brightness, contrast, video bit rate and resolution should be there.

• It is better if the software can convert other formats of video like DAT, RM, MPEG, AVI, MOV, WMV, MP4, RMVB, ASF, 3GP etc to iPod compatible video formats.

Have fun with the recently converted DVD movies into your iPod.

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+ How to Add YouTube Video to iPod

There are tens of thousands of good videos in the popular online video site – Youtube.com. Most of them are copyright protected and legally you can’t watch them of any other third party device. YouTube encodes its video with Macromedia Flash encoder, which restricts the viewer from downloading and making copies of it. But with some little effort you can download and watch them on your iPod. All you need is the iPod you have, iTunes (6 or later version), good internet connection, your web browser should be installed with Flash player plug-in and Quick Time Pro.

First select the YouTube video you want to add into your iPod. Let is fully downloaded into your PC. Once it is cached in the RAM completely, you are ready to add it into your iPod.

Then it’s time to find the downloaded file from the cache memory. There are numbers of software that will search the hard disk for FLV files for you. You can find them easily in the internet.

Now install Quicktime Pro in your computer. You can either download the free trial version or you may get the professional version from the internet paying only 25-30 dollars. You can directly convert the FLV file to iPod compatible MPEG-4 or H.264 version.

Apart from Quicktime Pro, there are other software that can convert the YouTube video formats directly to the iPod compatible format. I don’t have any intention to endorse any product, so it will be better not to mention any of them. But while reviewing these software, you should expect direct conversion facility (as you can not save the YouTube video files in your hard disk), the easy to use user’s interface, previewing mode, batch conversion facility, multithreading and merger facility. They should also contain options for customization of the video settings.

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