Introduction to Videora iPod Converter

Now that the iPod can play videos, there are many people curious about how to get their DVDs and TV shows, movies, and video files into a format that the iPod can play.

There are a number of ways to do this, including programs that you can download. One of these programs is called the Videora iPod Converter.

Videora iPod Converter is a Windows-only program that takes video from files or DVDs and converts it to iPod format to make it playable on the video iPod.

This guide tells you how to get video from your DVDs or other files onto your iPod using Videora iPod Converter.

NOTE: Be sure to only use this process with DVDs or video files that you own. Doing this with someone else’s DVDs or files is theft.

Download and Install Videora

Start by downloading Videora iPod Converter and installing it. It works with Windows.

As part of the installation process, you may need to download an updated version of Microsoft’s .NET framework. If you do, the installer will help you. Just follow its instructions.

Then get the DVD you want to add to your iPod and insert it into your PC. If you’re going to convert a file already on your computer, you don’t need to do anything with the file yet.

Choose Conversion Process

Once you’ve installed the software, the Videora iPod Converter home screen will pop up. As far as I can tell, you can’t turn off the ads.

Once you get past that, start your conversion by clicking the “convert” button at the top of the window.

This will give you two options for converting DVDs. The first is to use the conversion wizard, the other is a direct conversion.

To use the wizard, click the link in the middle of the window.

To do a direct conversion, click the “Select File” button at the bottom right of the screen.

Select the DVD to Convert

Either way, the next thing to do is to navigate through Windows to your DVD. Open it in Windows Explorer.

Select the Video File

Once you’ve opened the DVD, you’ll see a folder with audio and one with video. Choose video.

In that folder, you’ll find the tracks on the DVD. They won’t be named, so you’ll need to either guess at what you’re after, or determine which it is based on its number.

Once you’ve selected the video, click “open.”

Choose DVD Conversion Options

Now you can select from a series of options. You can control the quality of the audio and video of your new file with the sliders. The size of the file resulting from your choices will be displayed at the bottom of the window (this is not always 100% accurate, though. My conversion was predicted to be 44MB, but ended up being 87MB).

There are other options you can set, such as automatically adding the file to iTunes after conversion and where the file is saved, by clicking the “Options” tab at the top of the window.

Click the "next" or “convert” button, depending on which direction you chose.

Convert the DVD to iPod Format

The conversion of the video to iPod format will run. For my 16-minute video, the conversion took about 10 minutes.

When it’s done, Videora will forward you to a window showing the video as part of your video library now.

The video resulting from my conversion process looks great.

Now you’ve got an iPod-compatible version of your file. To add it to your iPod, drag it into the Movies section of your iTunes library. You may find that it doesn’t have a useful title, credits, etc. Learn how to edit iTunes track data.

Once all this is done, sync your iPod with iTunes and your video will be downloaded and ready to play!