MoviesForMyPod/PSP/Phone for Mac1.5

just not worth $60 when isquint is freeware!

Does not work with PSP firmware 3.30. The PSP says the file produced is unplayable or not supported. Please fix this!

Whats wrong with everyone? Just use FFMPEG FFS, support the developer, it has a PSP Mode, and it's H.264 encoding is both superb and quick!

Ripped "Complicated" music vid from Avril Lavigne "Let Go" (enhanced disc). Used 1_avi.avi from the disc. Worked great. Currently converting "He Wasn't" music video from CD single.

This works well if you select H.264 format, albeit excruciatingly slowly, but I find that it does a terrible job if I use MPEG4 format, even at the high quality option. I get a bad pulsing effect in the resulting videos. Anyone else seeing this? I wish the MPEG4 format worked well (and it can, as shown by iSquint - unfortunately I find that iSquint gives horrendous audio quality, so it's useless.) At least I can use H.264 format with this and get good video and audio quality, but it does take an insanely long period of time to convert even a 30 minute video using H.264.

Hey! Like others I can watch the converted file but there's no audio..what do I do? I see you talking about muxed files..what's that? What do I do? Please help

Does anybody know when you try converting a video file to AAC you get A message that stas " An unknow error occurred (-50)

Ok Developer I love this progrram its way better than anything else but I end up going back to isquint because it has widescreen support so please please try and impliment this in your next version then it'd be number one! Oh and H264 would be frieken hot!

How do you do a batch conversion cause i dont have a clue how to convert a dvd so if someone could give me a step by step conversion that would be great

For you having audio problems it's cause the Audio is Muxed, convert to quicktime using MPEG stream clip then try it, it'll work ;)!

Great program and thanks for keeping it freeware..It seems I can't get the program to transfer sound. Is this normal..the videos convert, alas without sound.

This is an Amazing little program. I haven't tried the streaming option yet, but I've made a few batch conversions and not one problem. If the automatic widescreen conversion is gone, I will miss it. Hopefully, loosing it was just an oversight. I'm waiting for muxed file suport, .mpeg, .vob, and with a cherry on top, .ts support would really be nice. I could then take shows right from my DVR and convert them over night in 2 steps for my ipod. Even without it, this app is a steal. You ca't beat free.

Extremely easy and amazing fast compared to the old MovieToGo application ... takes about an hour to convert a 45 minute video clip. Currently the best free iPod video converter for mac! One feature I really miss from the old MovieToGo that appears to have vanished is that of the ability for the app to automatically convert widescreen hdtv movie clips to the proper ipod resolution. By default this version ruins the video by stretching it to fit the 320x240 aspect ratio, rather than preserving the aspect ratio. As far as I can see, you have to manually configure it as a custom mpeg with a resolution of 320x180 to prevent it from distorting your video. Other than that, it is a great tool!

A requested feature: progress bar that indicates how far conversion has progressed.

Customer settings aren't saving here. I keep trying to make H.264 videos with a bitrate of 350kbps, but the output is MPEG-4 at 768 (default when opening the custom settings dialouge). When this is fixed, we'll finally have something comparable to Videora iPod Converter on the Mac.

MoviesForMyiPod is easier to use than QuickTime Player Pro since it is single purpose, but also it's more easily powerful for this singular purpose because it gives you simple quality options, including the option for MPEG4. QuickTime Player Pro doesn't put that option out in front when it comes to converting videos for the iPod and while you can do it with QP Pro, you have to know what settings to select. With Movies For My iPod it's a simple and quick pop-up menu selection. Also the watched folder option is great for automating the conversion of downloaded videos. MFMiP also offers a queue, however I found it either confusing, or impossible to remove items from the queue or re-arrange them, and the queue is represented textually. The queue needs work. Also the program doesn't support drag and drop - you can't drag a video onto its icon in the dock to open it. A feature I'd like to see added is the ability to add custom settings as menu items in the pop-up menu. Also, I'd like the option of having it automatically add the converted videos to iTunes. If that is added, it would be even nicer if it automatically placed the converted videos properly into the iTunes hierarchy of folders so that iTunes didn't need to copy it and you don't end up with two copies of every converted video. Alternatively just offer the option to move the video to the trash after it is added to iTunes. When it comes to putting video on your iPod, this program offers more features than QuickTime Player Pro, is easier to use and is free. What's not to like?

That's because the .mpg file was muxed, ffmpeg can handle muxed files as well as a few "demuxers" like MPEG Streamclip

Comparing the same file compressed with this and with QT seems to have no decernable difference in quality or time taken to compress.

Its slow and doesn't allow you to queue multiple files but so far it does seem to work.

Converted a .mpg to a .m4v. The resulting m4v played visually but had no sound in iTunes.

can be done with this: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005102017101662

Isn't this accomplished through QuickTime Pro (and some AppleScript for batch)?