AVI to iTunes (iPod)

[MrHood22]

I have a long flight coming up and i'm trying to add some videos to iTunes. They're all in AVI and apparently iTunes/iPod only read...

"QuickTime and MPEG-4 movie files that end in ".mov", ".m4v", or ".mp4" and are playable in QuickTime Player."


Is there a good free converter?

All of the ones I see have some type of restriction (90 secs, watermark, ect).

 

[Joe Average]

HandBrake. Get it, install it, load whatever video file you have in AVI format, select the iPhone/iPod touch preset (or iPad if that's your device), click Start, wait for it to finish, import the resulting file into iTunes and sync. You're done.

/thread

 

[pxc]

I use Handbrake. It works perfectly to transcode videos into iTunes compatible files, and is dead simple to use.

 

[Joe S]

+1 to Handbrake

 

[tel1jag]

+1 more to Handbrake.

 

[lemoon]

Or you could use Aneesoft Free video Converter, a program that can convert between many general video formats like *.mp4, *.wmv, *.avi, *.flv, *. mov, *.3gp, *.asf, .etc.
You can google it.

 

[86 5.0L]

I just discovered Handbrake after years of fighting with other programs. I am in bliss

 

[pakman134]

I just discovered Handbrake after years of fighting with other programs. I am in bliss

Hah the crazy part is that its FREE! Glad this worked out for you. Handbrake definitely changed the way I look at any video conversion software.

 

[rli5068]

and i thought i was special for knowing about handbrake

 

[wellbaby]

Just google search Easy Solution to Convert and Import AVI to iTunes so as to Transfer AVI Files to iPad/iPhone/iPod successfully

you will find a step by step guide and a nice software to convert and import avi to itunes for transfer to ipad, ipod iphone, apple tv and more

 

[AntonyWhite]

As you have discovered, iTunes doesn't recognize the .avi format. You will need to convert it to mp3 or another format that iTunes uses. There are numerous utilities -- free and otherwise -- that will do that. Since you didn't say which OS you're using, I can't recommend one. But a simple search on Google or Yahoo! for "avi to mp3" will show you what I mean.