Converting video for iPod

Hey.. I'm having the same problem.. Have you figured anything out?

Well, I'm not sure about that, but you can purchase a reasonably priced iPod video converter. They have some for just DVD's, some for just files on your computer and some with both.

iTunes uses quicktime services to do conversion.
Quicktime does not like muxed files(audio/video are one track), so you get only video.

You must get a seperate transcoder.
I recommend mpeg streamclip: http://www.squared5.com/

For commercial dvd conversion use the free program Instant handbrake : http://handbrake.m0k.org/

On a Mac-no need to pay for a great program that just works.

Hi i want to share my experience with you, you need to convert your dvd or video to the correct format first, ipod only support h264 and mpeg4 encoded format, i am using cucucsoft ipod suite, it works good for me, it can not only directly convert dvds to mp4, but also can convert avi, wmv,asf, xvid, rm, rmvb etc to mp4, it's easy and fast to use, highly recommended if you are looking for such a converter, i get it from http://www.ipodtechies.com/viewtopic.php?p=49#49

OK -- but to WHAT format do I need to convert the video. I have same problem as others. Mine are .mov files..... they play fine (audio and video) on the Mac thru QuickTime. But when I import to iTunes and then to iPod, I lose the audio. In Quicktime, there are numerous export options. Which one should I use?

david

I realized I had the app, MPEGStreamclip. But still got nowhere. The clips I have are .mov or mpg files. Both open and play just fine in QuickTime. But converting them to other formats in QuickTime accomplished nothing. So then I used MPEG Streamclip to convert them to mpeg format. That got them into my iTunes library playing fine, both video and audio. But iPod wouldn't accept them via manual transfer, so I used "convert to iPod." That stripped all the audio from them. In other words, I could get iPod to accept an mpeg video clip only after "converting," which got the video onto the iPod but no audio. So I'm stumped.