How to Put your Videos in IPhone or IPod Touch
It is easy to put your music files into your IPhone and IPod, but how about your video files? I found it difficult at first to put them into my IPhone, and play them on the go. I really wanted this to work since I would like to have some DVD movies, music videos, sports videos and other personal videos available on my IPhone.
For music files, it is as usual, you just put the MP3, AAC or M4A files into your music folders, and add the folder to your ITunes Music library, and presto! When you synch your IPhone/IPod to PC, your music files are copied. I did this routine for video, but unfortunately, they are not recognized by my IPhone.
1. So the first step really is to know the right video file format to put in IPhone. It just doesn’t accept any kind of video file. You must have the following video format – MP4, MOV or M4V. Sorry you cannot play AVI, WMV, 3GP or DIVX.
The difference with these video file formats (MP4, MOV or M4V) supported on IPhone is the H.264 standard. It is an advanced MPEG-4 compression standard for video, to deliver high video quality at a smaller file size. H.264 technology is also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC (Advanced Video Coding).
2. If you have an unsupported file format, you will need to convert those video files first to MP4, MOV or M4V before you can play those on IPhone. There are software that are made to do these, but there are also sources on the net that allows you to download movies on the right format, and with that, they also have a bundled software to convert your unsupported video file.
3. Transfer movies and videos to IPhone through ITunes. Put your MP4, MOV or M4V movies to your ITunes movie folder, then connect your IPhone to your computer via USB, and synch your IPhone to ITunes to copy your movies to your IPhone. You must be able to see your videos in your ITunes Movies Library, that is a sure sign that it will also be playable in your IPhone or IPod Touch.
That’s all! At first try you may find it fuzzy to put video into your IPhone, but from the 3 steps above, it is actually easy.
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