Internaut

Another one for our assembled experts....

I have an extensive collection of MP4 content that I've recorded thanks to the digital TV card in my laptop at home. At the moment I can convert these to DivX and play them on my aging iPaq 4700. Will it be possible to convert these movies and transfer to an iPod (i.e. the new Touch)?

pdxer

the ipod touch (and other video capable ipods) support mp4.

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.html

ScottC

Just add the folder to the iTunes library and you are done. There are some basic resolution limitations (I've got some HD movies for example that won't transfer) but everything else will copy onto the device.

Internaut

Cool. Thanks for the responses. Is the iPod Touch in the shops yet? I'm thinking of getting one this weekend.

SpaceBass

They showed up early...cought a lot of the retailers off guard. I found mine at circuit city last week...they were behind the counter and the clerk was insistant that they could not be sold, I asked her to try and she was floored...
Appled shipped them early and it had a cascading effect.

I'm using Visual Hub on the mac to convert movies. Its got a builtin profile for the TouchPod that works perfectly. It will add them to iTunes automatically too.

I've actually found the tolerence for formats to be a little more restrictive than ScottC... it won't play most of my video the way they are, I have to convert them

For the Mac challenged, visual hub is basically a frontend for FFPMEG so if you feel nerdy you can download ffmpeg (and I'm sure there's a windows frontend) and it will do the trick...

ScottC

Most of my content comes of my Tivo, and Tivo desktop just pre-converts it for me

Since the files are small(ish) I've already got over 4000 shows downloaded and converted

anaggie

So you convert any movies/show to mp4 thru nero and then download it to your itunes folder, right !!!!