Put Youtube video, DVD, video files to iPod

Apple has just released iPod touch and the newest iPod nano. iPod touch both looks and operates pretty much like iPhone with the touch-screen. Compared to iPod Classic, iPod touch is easier to operate and has a much better screen for watching videos. The newest iPod nano now also supports video with great picture quality. And now, you can enjoy movies, TV shows and a lot more videos on iPod classic, iPod touch and iPod nano. Three important video sources are Youtube videos, DVD movies and regular video files. The following is to guide you on how to put Youtube video, DVDs and videos on iPod (iPod classic, iPod touch and iPod nano) and Sync files to iPod:

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 below:


Secondly, go to http://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 below:

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.
DVD/Video to 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 :), it can convert YouTube to iPod easily. 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.


Sync files to iPod
Obviously, using iTunes to sync files to iPod is the choice of many iPod users. I use iTunes myself but I have found it a bit clunky. Apart from iTunes, there are also apps you can use to sync files to your iPod, either free or not:
a. YamiPod.
YamiPod is very popular free tool to transfer files to iPod and it has different version for different operation systems.
b. Wondershare iPod Video Transfer. This iPod sync tool is also free tool and it is built into the DVD to iPod Ripper and Video to iPod converter from this company. The two iPod converters are definitely great apps, as I motioned above. But their iPod Video Transfer still remains much too be desired, coz it doesn't do a very good job syncing music to my iPod, although it is a nice tool to sync videos.
There are a lot more sync tools and you can refer to a comparison list on Wikipedia to and see which ones best work for you.

 

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