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  Free Download the step by step tutorial (PDF) Last edit Feb 12, 2007

The tutorials describe the step by step way about convert/ripping DVDs (either movie DVD or music video DVD) to iPod video format(MP4, MPEG-4, H.264), and converting all other popular movie files to iPod with only one program. The iPod converter software is easy to use, works flawlessly. Super fast conversion speed with high quality plus chapters/segments ripping modes give you everything you need to put DVD/video on iPod. (You must have a DVD-Rom in your Pc.)

Before convert DVD to iPod or convert AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, Divx, MOV, XviD, RMVB, DVR-MS, ASF, MPG to iTune, let's take a look at the video formats which the iPod plays.

* iPod Video: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per sec., MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.

This guide have 2 parts,

Part1: How to rip/convert DVD to iTune/iPod
Part2: How to convert popular video files to iPod.

Features:
* DVD to iPod video converter component can rip DVD to iPod video directly ( do not need convert DVD to AVI or VOB first)
* iPod video converter component can Convert AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, RMVB, ASF, MOV, DIVX, XVID, MPG to iPod MP4 or H264 format
Let's view the steps.

(1)How to rip/convert DVD to iTune/iPod(Windows)
1. First of all, free download 'iPod video Converter + DVD to iPod Converter suite'  or 'DVD to iPod Converter' install and run.



2. Insert the DVD you'd like to convert to your DVD drive.

3. Click 'File' menu and 'Open DVD', or directly hit 'Open DVD' button to load the DVD.

4. Click around in the DVD's menu to set up DVD playback as you like, then begin to play the movie through the software.

5. The following window will pop up. Here, you can rename 'Title Name', set 'Save Path' and output quality, then click 'Yes' button to start ripping DVD to iPod mp4 or H264 video from the point that the movie starts. That is all, you can have a cup of coffee and wait, just so easy!



6. After the conversion is done, it will popup a window to ask you if you want to go to the output fold, click yes then you will find the converted .mp4 file that DVD to iPod converter created.
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2. How to convert iPod video, such as AVI to iPod, WMV to iPod, MPEG to iPod, RM to iPod, RMVB to iPod, ASF to iPod, MPG to iPod, DivX to iPod, XviD to iPod video. (Windows)

Procedure
1. Download 'iPod video Converter + DVD to iPod Converter suite'(latest version) or iPod Video Converter,install and run.

Related download

* Highly recommend you to download the latest all-in-one video codec from http://www.free-codecs.com/Codec_Pack_All_in_1_download.htm to install in your pc first.
* To convert RM/RMVB real media files to iPod, Maybe need to install Realplayer:
http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk
* To convert WMV, ASF to iPod, Maybe need to install Windows Media Player:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...a/default.mspx

2. Run iPod Video converter component, load the video files you'd like to convert by clicking 'Open file' button.


3. Click 'Output' and choose the pathname where you want to save your video files. Click 'Convert' to start converting video to iPod MP4 or H264 MOV files.
Tips: Before converting, you can click 'Advance -> Video settings' to set 'Video format', 'Resolution', 'Framerate', 'Output Quality'. If you'd like to convert video to H264 .mov files, please set 'Video format' to 'H264(.MOV) FQ Variable Bitrate'. 'MPEG4(.mp4) FQ Variable Bitrate' is the default value. Certainly, you can also set 'Audio Bitrate', 'Channels', 'Sample
Rate' and 'Volume' in 'Audio Settings' page.

4. After converting, you can open the output folder to check the iPod video files.

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After a short while, you will get the mp4 file that is ready to be played on your iPod(either you converted from DVD or from other videos files). But how do you add it to your iPod? Here is how to do it:How to update video to your ipod through iTune