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| There was a thread recently (now taken down) from a Chinese spammer advertising dubious software for converting various movie files into formats to play on the iPod / iPhone.
Although that particular one was pretty dodgy, there are some good apps out there for Mac users trying to achieve this kind of thing - and for free. Just in case anyone's interested I thought I'd throw a few ideas out there. In no particular order:
Video Monkey
Evom
MPEG Streamclip
Or even Quicktime Pro plus the free plug-in Perian (Save as self contained movie, then Export the resulting .mov to mp4).
All of the above are free, tried and tested by the Mac community, and proven to work. I've no affiliation to any of them, but I've seen the question come up a few times, so thought others may find them useful. There are tons of others as well if anyone wants to add to the list.
By the way, these are Mac only I'm afraid, but I'm sure there are plenty of Windows alternatives out there if anyone wants to chip in.
N.B. To avoid confusion - these are not iPhone apps, they are for your desktop / notebook Mac. This post has been merged from a standalone thread. | |
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Cream of the crop for converting video files has to be the completely free iSquint or the open source ReduxEncoder. Both will perform conversions to ipod/iphone/apple tv presets and even add the files straight to iTunes after conversion is finished. Lovely.