The Best iPod Video Converters

Ever since the iPod portable music player was first released in October 2001, Apple has constantly been improving it's capabilities and overall functionality.

As of 2008, the current product line-up includes the hard drive-based iPod classic, the touchscreen iPod touch, the iPod nano, the screenless iPod shuffle and the iPhone. They all can play audio file formats such as MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audiobook and Apple Lossless.

Fifth and sixth generation iPod classics, as well as third generation iPod nanos, can additionally play MPEG-4 (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC) and QuickTime video formats, with restrictions on video dimensions, encoding techniques and data-rates.

When you want to watch your favourite movies or video files on you video-enabled iPhone, you first have to convert them. This means, run an easy-to-use piece of software which makes a video file of reduced size out of your original file or DVD, that your iPod can read and play. It's really that simple !

Most iPod conversion software can either rip your DVD or video file to the iPod MPEG-4 format, so when buying an iPod video converter you should opt for the so-called "suites", with with you can both rip DVDs and convert movie files. An iPod conversion suite really is a Swiss army knife, it is the only software you'll ever need to enjoy watching your movies on your iPod.

Below you can download trial versions of the top three iPod converters. All are rated outstanding but you can try all of them out to see which one you like the most before you eventually decide to buy.