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Best freeware for converting video files?
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Handbreak is great. I used to use a program called iSquint, which I think still exists but with a different name.
BTW, there are programs that will play AVI files on the iPad.
BTW, there are programs that will play AVI files on the iPad.
dXTC
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I'm number 1,000,001, then. HandBrake is everyone's friend.
Oh, and get VLC while you're at it. HandBrake can use VLC's libraries to read data directly from a DVD, if you're looking for that capability down the road.
No, but it's strange,I have the backup of the ipa from when it was still available in iTunes but it won't sync to the iPad.
WoodrowCall
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there's always cinexplayer and oplayer, plays on iPad without having to convert.
Or airvideo, you can stream over wifi or select a bunch of stuff to convert and add it to itunes for syncing.
Or airvideo, you can stream over wifi or select a bunch of stuff to convert and add it to itunes for syncing.
the only one?
I must be the only one who doesn't like Handbrake, it just takes far far too long to encode anything. I always stick with my trusty copy of Visualhub.
I must be the only one who doesn't like Handbrake, it just takes far far too long to encode anything. I always stick with my trusty copy of Visualhub.
I recently started using iVI and I love it. You can download it for free from the Mac app store. I have used it to convert .avi and .mkv. I haven't tried other formats. It even looks up the metadata online and adds it to your videos.
I need them to be .mov though..>I have handbrake and can't see anywhere that it will do that? Can anyone point me to instructions if it is possible. My goal is to convert movies taken with my Kodak Playsport and then convert to MOV file format so that I can then put them in my ipad in the DCIM folder so that I can then use them in iMovie.
ClutchThese
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That's what Handbrake does. It reformats the file to .mp4(and usually shrinks it a bit)
you then drag it to your itunes folder and it will sync with your ipad/iphone/ipod.
I've been using quicktime X's send to itunes feature through automator, and im just curious why i haven't see anyone ever suggest that? ( i use perian so quicktime can play .avi's )
Hi
I understand what the process is I just didn't know if there was an app I could get for the iPad that decodes the files ratherbthan me having to convert it first.
It would be better if I could get some codec app for the ipadnthat can read anything.
the VLC in the store now is not the app we mean, the one we mean was on the iPad and iPhone and acted like the computer versoin, the only VLC app out now in the app store is the streaming one and remote control one.
you want an app like cinexplayer or oplayer. install that on your ipad, then when you plug into itunes, go to your ipad, the app tab at the bottom you will see a list of programs, select cinexplayer and just drag and drop there, then once it's copied over, open cinexplayer and there you go, the video will be there to play, no conversion necessary.
i coulda written that better, but it's been a long day! lol
Thanks, I can't see the app tab? I have brought cinexplayer for ipad and now just tried to drag and drop a video file to my ipad but itunes said it could not be copied as it's not compatible. 😕
It's ok, I figured it out now. Thanks for your help!! Saves me having to convert! 😀
yea that sucked that it got pulled, just hurts us consumers. it was just a few weeks before airplay launched, so we missed out on that getting update to VLC. would be nice if they changed their minds and sorted out a new app.