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oceanicitl
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Does anyone know of any reliable free software to converts video and movie files for iPod / iPhone?
I have got one myself but it's at home and I can't remember then name.
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big_D
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Have you looked at Handbrake?
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HeatherKay
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Isn't it iTunes?
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big_D
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Only if they are already in a format iTunes can cope with... Handbrake + vlc will allow you to convert most formats, including DVDs.
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ProfessorF
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+1 for Handbrake, and as Dave said, depends on what your source is. Handbrake's the best start point though.
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EddArmitage
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big_D
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Caz hasn't been back, but we sorted it out over IM. Pointed her to a tutorial on Handbrake and everything is peachy. 
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bally199
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You haven't got a recent nVidia graphics chip in your Mac have you? Badaboom! is a very quick converter which uses your graphics card as a processor. Can use almost any format, and ripped a full DVDs worth into MP4 in about 5 minutes. _________________ Kimmotalk is where all the cool people hang.
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ProfessorF
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And it relies on Windows.
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gavomatic57
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It's also needs a fast GPU to see the benefits and that's still a bit of a sore spot for the mac. Best stick to Handbrake!
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paulzolo
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iSquint may be what you want.
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jonbwfc
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Works well but it - and it's bigger brother VisualHub - are 'orphanware' - the developer has stopped supporting it and effectively walked away. You'll have to work hard to find somewhere to even download a copy. There's a new product based on the same code videomonkeybut frankly it's not really ready yet - for example when encoding it will only run one thread (or at least it's limited to a single core) whereas VisualHub will use as much CPU as you can throw at it. Jon
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paulzolo
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A Google for iSquint gives you this as the first hit: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19769
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jonbwfc
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Well that's actually quite unusual. MacUpdate as a rule doesn't serve downloads itself, the 'download now' link just points to the download page of the relevant maker's web site. They obviously kept a copy of the .DMG when techspansion took the huff and are supplying it themselves. Good on them for that. Jon
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