# iPod video converters?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-video-converters/341792>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 27, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-video-converters/341792 "2006-01-27T02:01:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-video-converters/341792/1 "2006-01-27T02:01:35Z")

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I’m looking for programs to convert my movie collection on my computer to a format which my iPod likes. I’ve been using PSPVideo9, but it outputs the file into a horrible alphanumeric mess, which I then have to clean up. The reviews on the things I found at [download.com](http://download.com) are terrible, which means that I come to the SDMB!

My only criteria are:  
Make the movie play on my iPod!  
I want to be able to have a queue to be processed!  
Keep the original file name, dammit!

That’s it.

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**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-video-converters/341792/2 "2006-01-27T15:48:15Z")

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You can try [Videora iPod Coverter](http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/). It does the three things on your list.

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**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-video-converters/341792/3 "2006-01-27T15:56:43Z")

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Apparently the OP is a Windows user, FWIW…[iSquint](http://www.isquint.org/) does a similar thing for Mac users (there are other programs as well, this one is free and seems to work well)

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**Author:** ![eyoung123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@eyoung123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eyoung123)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-video-converters/341792/4 "2006-01-27T16:57:51Z")

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I’ve been using Handbrake with pretty good results. Oddly, I do occasionally have to use the Convert file option in ITunes after I rip them with handbrake.  
[http://handbrake.m0k.org/](http://handbrake.m0k.org/)

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**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ipod-video-converters/341792/5 "2006-01-30T06:23:05Z")

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Aha! The PSP converter thing I was using (it was featured in PopSci) was a Videora product… just… not the one designed for iPods.

Thanks guys.