Questions for any iPod users...

Hi Patrick, I have a 60 gig video( first edition of video ipod) ipod and have the following on in: 28 short 5-10 minute videos, 3 full length movies, 18 hour long TV shows, 4 Music Videos and a huge collection of songs and various music productions. In addition, I have a large photo collection on it. My ipod is not even half full. If you can, go for the 80 gig. It plays beautifully and you can use is with a large TV if you wish. I hope this helps. It connects well with aux imput on my new Prius also. The ipod records in Mpeg4 format. I use it with iTunes so I am not sure about other possibilitys. Best Wishes, John

 

A 30GB can hold up to 75 hours. I have The Incredibles, Cars and the Smug Alert episode of South Park on mine (plus music, pictures, audio books and radio shows) and haven't even really used it.

In answer to your second question, there are programs that will convert a DVD to the iPod format. For example, a friend of mine uses HandBrake and has added several movies and TV shows to his iPod.

 

You can fit a movie for iPod in about 500 MB so you could have about 60 movies in the 30 GB ipod. You can rip dvds, record TV shows, etc. As long as its converted to the appropriate format it will play.

 

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The one my friend uses is Handbrake. He's used it to convert movies and TV series from DVD to the iPod format.

 

"DVD Shrink" to rip DVDs. "Handbrake" to convert them.

 

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I use DVDDecrypter to rip, does a great job, it can also rip to an iso file and also burn iso files to DVD's, I even do our home movies to DVD using this, just have my editing software save as an iso then use dvddecrypter to burn the iso's.

Someone else mentioned DVDshrink, this is great for converting dual layer disks to fit on a single layer blank (since dual layer blanks still cost several dollars).

 

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I think so. I have 8 iPods, two 30GB Video, two 80GB Video, and two modern shuffles and a original shuffle, and one Nano. On them is stretched out my 37,000 song library all of which is stored in my iTunes on my Apple. And I can only think of a few things that Apple seems to have issues with, one being .wav files, and that is only with storing the artwork for them. Other then that, I have on my iTunes recorded video from EyeTV, which moves TV shows to my iPods with ease, and since you mentioned AppleTV, I can say, that it will also play that same material with no problem.

 

I haven't played with AppleTV yet, but I have a couple TiVos and it is very simple to copy recorded TV shows to my iPod. I have to go to France for a wedding in a couple days so I'm filling my iPod up with TV shows and DVD movies that I have uh, backed up.