Video X Ware’s Blog

It’s been a quite while now since Apple unleashed their iPhone, the smart and lightweight handheld device which have a gorgeous 3.5″ screen that can make phone talks, netsurf via internet with Safari, and play crisp videos and music as iPod. Admittedly, there are a lot of complaints from people about iPhone’s short life in battery, exclusive use for AT&T and high price. But we all have known and realized that iPhone has been playing a big number in Apple’s iPod family. In terms of the tech parameters published officially in Apple’s site, we noticed that except the screen size, all the video and audio formats supported by Video iPods are totally the same, especially the iPod Touch, it seems to be another iPhone just without the mobile phone connection. And the truth is, there are some differences amongst them, even they are very tiny so as to masses always overlook them unconsciously. For example, the iPhone’s requirement is video bit rate at 2.5Mbps, while the iPod Classic and iPod Nano can playing over 3.0Mbps. It doesn’t mean iPhone cannot support this 3.0Mbps kind, but if you’ve tried, you’d have to take my words, coz the 3.Mbps videos is unable to work on iPhone and iPod Touch. But what’s the matter if you are just playing videos in an iPod or an iPhone? In order to demonstrate what I said, I did some tests to compare the displaying quality between iPhone and iPod. First of all, I just converted a DVD video file to iPod MPEG-4 video format using Xilisoft DVD to iPod Converter, set the resolution at 480 by 320 and bit rate at 2.5Mbps. Then I did this conversion and settings again with the DVD to iPhone Converter of Xilisoft, whose output profile named iPhone MPEG-4 (480*320). After that, I transferred both converted video files into a iPod Nano and an iPhone respectively thru Xilisoft iPod Rip, an iPod transfer tool, and no surprising, the video quality plays well as in the same criterion just with your eyes. By the way, these tools from Xilisoft Corporation are way easy to use. The only spot which cannot content my needs is that the iPod rip doesn’t have an option to modify the file name, even though it did better at removing video files directly from iPod or iPhone than Apple’s iTunes.  So the conclusion is iPhone can play videos perfectly as Video iPod did. Just like my tests, maybe most DVD to iPod converter (DVD Converter) software can fulfil your requests in DVD to iPhone conversion no matter you owned a Video iPod and an iPhone or just one of them. 

Everybody loves movies because they give us chances to experience various fancy lives of someone else we can just imagine in dreams. Most of them were DVD movies. DVD, whose main uses are video and data storage, is the popular optical disc storage media format. Since we are being satisfied with the benefits DVD brings to us, we are also bothered by its inconvenience, which is unportable. Fortunately, we had the iPod.

“iPod”, explained in the Wikipedia, “is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched in October 2001.” All we know that watching music videos and TV programs on your iPod is all great and everything, but there is wondering left how we can put DVD movies on our iPod? Usually, that must be one reason many people buy a Video iPod – they think that they can watch DVD movies on their iPod video directly as they want. Wrong!

You can’t find out an option like “convert DVD to iPod format” on the iTunes interface. Maybe it seems silly, but it’s completely unsupported. You would think that after spent $299 or $399 on a video iPod, you would be able to put any kind of video on your iPod? Wrong either!

Before going any further, we are about to get some software that will help first. The software, generally called a ripper, will basically be ripping the movies from the DVD and converting it into a format which can be used by your iPod. There are sorts of programs on the market by manufacturers such as ImTOO and Xilisoft. Just Google what required, more information lists for you to select!

Let’s take Xilisoft DVD to iPod Converter as an instance. After program installation, I think less than 40 seconds is fast over my imagination. Tow options to upload your DVD folder or ISO folder: choose from the “File” menu or click the “Open DVD” or “Open ISO Files” icon directly on the interface. Select destination formats including almost all kinds of iPod video formats in the “Profile” box, and determine the location on your computer for the destination folder. After all, just one click “Start ripping”, you can get the DVD movies fit for your Video iPod.

The next, we need to transfer these DVD movies fit for iPod into our Video iPod. Of cause iTunes is a perfect choice, but there are some smart tools as well. I think you are supposed to take a opportunity to try “iPod rip” or “iPod to computer transfer”, they are amazing (the usability and the price)!

Now you see, just put a DVD to iPod in a few simple steps! I hope that was useful to you and will help you put your existing DVD movies onto your iPod, and if you’d like to be able to free download ipod tools, you can check up the link at the bottom of this article.