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I hope this is in the right area.

My Mini died on me...while at the gym. Now, I don't have roid rage..but I was so pissed off, I proceeded to smash it against a bar bell. Thus securing it as a non-functional ipod.

Anyway, I went and purchased a video ipod. However, I have video on my hdd that wasn't purchased from itunes that I'd like to add. This is where my problem comes in. On Apple's website, they say you can convert video to play on your ipod by opening it in Quicktime Pro 7 first (which I have), then exporting it as an ipod compatible video. The problem you ask? It takes sooooo fucking loooooong. I'm not kidding, two hours for a music video? There HAS to be a quicker way? Anyone know of anything?

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Other then getting another encoder, it'd help if you gave us your computer specs, encoding is still CPU dependent.
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It's a Toshiba Satellite laptop.

Pentium 4, 3.06 GHz
3.07 GHz, 704 MB of RAM

...that's what I found under the system properties.

Also, I found something that seems to be working. ImTOO MPEG Encoder. It's, literally, 1000x faster than what QT was doing!
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Aslong as it works on the Vid Ipod, keep using it.
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Videora is the way to go

That said, DON'T expect to say, wait for 2 minutes and you'll have a video ready for the ipod. It's more of an 'queue up 10 videos to be encoded overnight' or 'let's encode two as I go to class' thing. [/url]
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There are plenty of free Windows and Mac apps out there that can produce iPod video compatible video files. Don't bother with QuickTime Pro.
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Durandal wrote:There are plenty of free Windows and Mac apps out there that can produce iPod video compatible video files. Don't bother with QuickTime Pro.
But I thought apple software would cure you of male pattern baldness and be easy to use with video iPods!
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MKSheppard wrote:
Durandal wrote:There are plenty of free Windows and Mac apps out there that can produce iPod video compatible video files. Don't bother with QuickTime Pro.
But I thought apple software would cure you of male pattern baldness and be easy to use with video iPods!
It does all that and more. But charging $30 for the ability to play a movie fullscreen is stupidity that even the most die-hard Apple fan can't defend.
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Yup, there are a few third-party fullscreen QuickTime players out there for OS X that I use. Charging for fullscreen is just plain idiotic.
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mplsjocc: I'd suggest boning up on the rules. Discussions about how to pirate software are strictly forbidden. Don't do it again.
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I have a few Ipod issues of my own. As an Ipod owner for less than 3 days,I hope somebody can advise me, Surprised as I was that the directions that came with it were....thin.

How do I delete songs from my Ipod? I can't seem to figure out how.

My computer has told me that there are discs it can't transfer into my
Ipod because the disc is 'write protected' I have no idea what this means
or how to get around it. Anybody know?

How do I arrange things the way I want them? For example, say I have
5 Beatles CD's and want to make a playlist just of the Beatles. How would
I do this?
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Well firstly I wouldn't import using iTunes. I'd get CDex or EAC to do the ripping from CD, and then import the files into iTunes. Also, you must delete songs from iTunes and make sure that they aren't synced back on. You cannot delete on the fly, something that Creative users are used to.
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Equinox2003 wrote:How do I delete songs from my Ipod? I can't seem to figure out how.
Delete them from your iTunes library and resync. Or just uncheck them in iTunes to ensure that they do not transfer to the iPod. (You must also have the "Only Update Checked Songs" option enabled in Preferences > iPod.)
My computer has told me that there are discs it can't transfer into my Ipod because the disc is 'write protected' I have no idea what this means or how to get around it. Anybody know?
You can't transfer discs to your iPod. You have to rip them and add them to your library first.
How do I arrange things the way I want them? For example, say I have 5 Beatles CD's and want to make a playlist just of the Beatles. How would I do this?
Uh ... press the big button with the "+" in iTunes to create a new playlist. Or create a smart playlist of all songs by The Beatles.
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