Convert Youtube Video, DVD, Video Files to iPod touch, iPod classic and iPod nano

Below are steps to upload photos to and set wallpaper for iPod touch:

Assemble your ipod touch wallpaper in a folder. And connect it with your computer.

In iTunes (PC or Mac) do the following:

1. Click the Photos tab and select "Sync photos from:"
2. From the pop-up menu, do the following:
3. Choose the ipod touch wallpapers folder, or whichever folder you have saved the wallpapers to.
4. You can then choose "All photos," or choose "Selected folders" or "Selected albums" and choose the folders or albums you want to sync.
5. Then from your ipod touch go to: Settings --> Wallpaper --> Photo Library and then choose which wallpaper you would like to set.
That's it!

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1.Youtube video to iPod

I often visit Youtube to watch videos and sometimes I download videos from Youtube to put on my iPod.

Most Youtube videos are FLV formats, so I use a free online FLV converter to do the conversion.

Firstly, go to Youtube and open the page of the video you want to put on your iPod. And you will find the Youtube URL of this video to the right of the playback window. Then copy this URL. See the highlighted area in the figure on the top right.

Secondly, go to vixy.net, paste the copied URL into the URL field of this web page, and select "MP4 for iPod/PSP" from the "Converts to" drop-down list. Then click "Start" below this list to start the conversion. See the highlighted areas on the top right.

Finally, after the conversion, this website will provide a download link for you to download the converted MP4 file. When you see the link, you can just download the final file from the link, save the downloaded MP4 file on your computer and use iTunes to sync it on to your iPod.

I have a huge collection of DVD movies and video files. And I always put a few movies on my iPod to kill time while travelling.

DVD movies cannot be transferred to iPod via iTunes, so I had to find a converter to do that. I have used a few converters and the one I am using now is Wondershare DVD to iPod Ripper. It is not free, but not expensive either. I decided to spend the money coz it does a good job on the final quality and conversion speed. And if I don't want to put a whole movie, I can just convert part of a movie onto my iPod with this app. My OS is Windows, so I use the Windows version. If you are using a Mac OS, I have noticed that they have a Mac DVD to iPod converter that you can try, which I don't know if is as good because I don't have Mac OS.

Most of my video files are not MP4 formats that can be directly used on iPod, so I also bought the video to iPod converter from the same company coz I thought it would also be nice app, and it turned out to be so :) Actually, this video converter and the DVD converter are pretty much the same as far as the functions and the operational steps are concerned, and the only difference to me is that one is to convert DVDs and the other is to convert video files. If you also want a video to iPod converter, you can just download a trial version to see if it is what you need. Unfortunately, they don't have a Mac version for video converters.

After the videos files you want to put on your iPod are converted to iPod MP4 formats, you can just sync them to your iPod classic, iPod touch or iPod nano with iTunes and start enjoy them!

The above is my experience with converting and transferring files from various sources to my iPod, and I hope it can shed some light.

Below is the step-by-step user guide for Wondershare DVD to iPod Converter for Mac:
http://www.ipod-soft.com/article/dvd-ipod-mac-guide.html

Before we get into the details of how to copy media content from the iPod back to your computer, it's important to begin with a discussion of how that content is actually stored on the iPod. An understanding of how the iPod stores its content will make it more clear as to what the various recovery or copying options actually do, and help decide on what the best option is for a particular situation.

Unlike many other portable media players, the iPod stores its content using a database methodology. iTunes copies the content itself to a hidden directory structure on the iPod and then updates a database stored on the iPod. It is this database that is used both by iTunes and the iPod interface itself to index and catalog the content that is stored on the iPod.

For the most part, this database information is gleaned from the internal header tags within the media files themselves, in much the same way that iTunes indexes and catalogs your media library. Information such as the track name, artist, album, genre, and a myriad of other information that you can find for each track in iTunes is actually stored in each file, and the name of the file has no bearing on what iTunes or the iPod sees or how it catalogs any given media file. In fact, the only time the file name is ever used by iTunes is if the tags themselves are not present.

The iPod database also contains additional information about your music that is not normally stored within the tracks themselves. This includes your playlists and the listing of their content, as well as track metadata such as rating, play count, last played time, skip count, last skipped time, and more.

This particular means of storing information on the iPod has both advantages and disadvantages. The major advantage to this approach is that music is catalogued in such a way that it is easily and rapidly accessible from the various menus on the iPod itself, without having to search through individual track information or build a separate cache. The disadvantage is that the music must be tagged properly in order for this to work, and of course this obscures the actual layout of the music files themselves, making it more difficult to find and copy specific tracks from the iPod back to the computer.

Fortunately, a number of third-party utilities have been developed that can read these iPod databases directly, and use them to not only locate specific tracks to recover, but in some cases even recover playlists and other additional metadata such as rating and play count.

On the iPod itself, all of the internal iPod information is located in a hidden folder called iPod_Control. Most of the information in this folder pertains to internal iPod operations, such as device configuration and settings and the library database described above. However, beneath this iPod_Control folder is a Music folder that contains all of the individual audio and video files that are stored on that particular iPod. The only information not stored here is photos, which we will discuss separately later in this article.

The files in the Music folder won't necessarily be organized in any meaningful way for a human, since they are expected to be accessed via the iPod's library database, which contains all of the information and other metadata for each track cross-referenced with the location of these individual files.

You can actually get free ringtones directly inside iTunes by just changing around a file extension. All officially purchased ringtones have the .M4R extension, so all you have to do is rename any AAC file to a M4R file to get it to show up in iTunes under Ringtones. Sync to your phone and you're done.

Ever thought of converting video files downloaded from the Internet or taken by our digital cameras to your iPod classic, iPod nano and iPod touch? Wondershare Video to iPod Converter for Mac provides you with the perfect solution. It can convert video to iPod classic, iPod nano and iPod touch with very high output quality. It has both a Power PC version and an Intel version, and you can just install the right program depending on your CPU. After the program is installed, follow the steps below to convert video to iPod:

Step 1: Add Video files

Click the Add button, and the program will let you browse your computer hard drive. Select the video files you want to convert and click OK.

Step 2: Output Settings

After adding video files, you can start to set output settings for each file:

1. Select an output format from the Format drop-down list. Just select an format according to the player which you want to put your videos on.
2. Click the Settings button to set encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder.
3. Click the Browse button to specify an output folder to save the converted files.

Note 1: If you want to convert all the added files into one format with the same encoding parameters, you can just click the "Apply to All" button.
Note 2: You can check the "Merger into one file" option to convert all the added video files into a single file.

Step 3: Click the Start button to start the conversion. And all you need to do now is to wait for the conversion to be finished. The remaining time will be shown on conversion window for your reference.



Tip 1: Trim Movie

If you just want to convert a clip from a video file, you can select this file and click the Trim icon to capture a clip from it. In the Trim window, you can trim video length either by dragging the Start Time and End Time sliders or by setting the time parameters in each corresponding field.



Tip 2: Crop Video

If a video file has black video sides around its video, you can click the Crop button to open the Crop window and remove the black video sides. You can specify the video crop area by dragging the crop frame or setting the four crop parameters (Top, Bottom, Left and Right).

Tip 3: Movie Effect

If you want to change the original video effect, you can click the Effect icon to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation, and even audio volume. You can also choose to apply a special effect to your video from the available effects including Gray, Emboss and Negative.

Note: If a converted video has stripe, you can select a Deinterlace mode here and convert the original file again to remove the stripes.