Can you play movies on iPOD touch?

You can watch movies on the Touch. Are you having problems?

If you're trying to drag and drop video straight as-is onto the ipod touch - you can't. You have to convert them, and for best performance, compress them to match the iPod's resolution. Anything more is wasted data that just makes the file bigger than it needs to be.

Aloha, Deborah.
I see you are on OS X. I would highly recommend you take a look at iSquint. The name is a play on the fact that it makes your video the right format for the small screens of iPods. 😉

It's a free, limited to iPod only version of a much more powerful program called Visual hub. iSquint has been around for a while, and gets a pretty good review.

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Thanks a lot Scott, I'm new to iPod Touch (bought it last Saturday) and I was trying unsuccessfully to transfer movie to my Touch.

You spare me a lot of time.

Ever since I upgraded to 2.0 I cannot sync my movies and tv shows back onto my ipod touch. itunes is up to date, quicktime is up to date. I reset my ipod, and I also tried restoring it. I tried authorizing my computer. I even de-authorized it and re-authorized it to try and get them on my ipod. My music went onto the ipod touch just fine. When I try to put the movies back I get a message saying such movie cannot be transferred to this ipod because it cannot be played on this ipod. There is also a message that says the format is not supported. I have played these on my ipod before. These were BOUGHT through itunes. Why aren't they working anymore? Anyone else having this problem? My mom also has an ipod touch but she hasn't plugged hers in yet because she doesn't want the same problem. She also has those movies/tv shows on her ipod and they play on hers.

Nevermind, I found the answer in another thread 🙂

Then my work here is done. 😉

use nero recode they encode them perfectly and they sound like theyre dolby digital

Not at all. I thought you were having difficulty with that task. iSquint is pretty good for those files that are not of the right type for an iPod. I use it for items pulled off my DVR and the odd personal video friends or family might send that I (for some reason) might want to have around. Good example was a holiday celebration that someone edited together, but the format was not right for an iPod.

Anyone have a converter like squint for those of us using windows OS plz?

Yes try Videora for iPod, just google it. It's free and easy to use, produces good results.

thanks, will let you know how it went...