Posted by shady1111 on 11/16/05 19:15

Allow me to flame a bit;

this has turned into the stupidest conversation ever.
wah, this screen is too small, it doesn't accept my files, wah!
make your own player.

The initial thread was regarding the technical reformatting of videos
to play on the ipod.
Now, to find the few comments related to video conversion I have had to
read all of the 'idiots banter' about the philosophical dilemmas faced
when choosing one media player over another and the moral relativity of
screen size. SHUT UP already.

As for the initial question,

Quicktime pro will convert mpg and mov files to m4v format, but I have
not had success converting any AVI files - Quicktime either states it
cannot open the files, or it converts them and they end up without
audio. Either way, iTunes will not allow me to import them.

I just started using Total Video Converter (
http://www.effectmatrix.com as Hanson Woo recommended back on Oct
14th) with much success, although I am still working out the kinks of
video resizing.

If anyone knows a workaround to the Quicktime Pro issue of not
recognizing avi files I would be stoked to hear it. When it actually
works (with mpg and mov conversion) it does do a much better job of
outputting ready to go, correctly ipod sized videos than TVC.

Thanks
-shady

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