ipod touch video formats

These are the video formats that the Touch supports:

H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

As you can see, H.264 is, indeed one of them.

Motion JPEG is an outdated format that has largely been superseded by formats such as H.264 and MPEG-4.

WMV is a Microsoft proprietary format so it seem unlikely that Apple will license it when there are other available formats.

.avi is not a format per se but a container format. It can contain virtually any compression scheme, including Full Frame (Uncompressed), Intel Real Time (Indeo), Cinepak, Motion JPEG, Editable MPEG, VDOWave, ClearVideo / RealVideo, QPEG, and MPEG-4 Video.

There are many available video conversions programs so most of us manage to make do with the multiple formats the Touch does support.

If you want to submit feedback to Apple, use this link:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Best of luck.

i down loaded a short video from my sony camcorder to my computer than tried to sync movie to my ipod touch. i see the movie on my computer under photos but in video format which is fine. when i go into the ipod summay then photos check include videos and see it listed, check the files box, sync...doenst show up on my ipod under photos or video. just not there. any idea on how to transfer homemade videos to computer with windows xp?

You need to convert videos to an iPod compatible format first. iTunes does not support video conversion, so you have to use one of the many converters out there. Most of them feature iPod touch profiles, so these are your target.
I suggest the freeware Format Factory: http://www.formatoz.com/

Despite what the poster above says, iTunes does, in fact, support video conversion. If you can see the video in iTunes, select the video, then from the Advanced menu, select Create iPhone or iPod version.

Despite to what the user above said, this can not be considered as video conversion, since you are not even able to insert an AVI or other unsupported formats to iTunes.

I did not say it would convert all video formats. However, it certainly meets the definition of video conversion. To say that it doesn't because it won't convert everything is, well, wrong. There is absolutely no need to get additional software if iTunes will do what the OP requires.

i see the vidoe under photos in itunes which is fine and i check video box at top tp include. but when i highligh the vidoe, click on advanced the create ipod or iphone version is not highlighted so i am not able to select it. the previous post suggested i download something to convert the video but that sight isnt there. do you have any other ideas how i can transfer the video from my camcorder to my ipod touch?

I am from the Macintosh side and use VLC to convert video. You might want to try the PC version at:
http://www.brothersoft.com/vlc-media-player-61497.html

Boy did I screw up. The program I use to convert video is ffmpegx. There is a pc version at:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffmpeg