Everyone knows iTunes, the granddad of iPod video downloads. Very soon, Amazon and other major players also entered the market. Getting a video online is a breeze since all you need is your PC and an internet connection. You can even do it in your boxer shorts, sitting comfortably in your living room.
If you have been downloading music for a while, you should have heard of peer-to-peer P2P file sharing networks. You would find not only music files, but iPod video downloads for TV shows, movies and music videos. In short, you can find practically any media file that has been produced. But that is provided you know how to search and have the right P2P client application to do the job. Some of this P2P software such as MP3 Rocket and Fast Torrent are freeware and can be downloaded at places like Download or Snapfiles.
Websites such as Geek Entertainment TV, Vidblogs, VideoJug, Flurl, Daily Motion, StumbleVideo, Metacafe, Joost and MySpace Videos are great places to search for iPod video downloads. Though most of them are videos filmed and uploaded by amateurs, more professionals are using them to promote their movie and music video previews. You should be able to find rather entertaining videos and movie clips there.
No matter where you have gotten them, other than from iTunes, there is a likelihood that they cannot be played on your iPod. Well, they are not faulty. The only problem here is the format these files are created and downloaded in. Our iPods only read iPod video downloads in MPEG4 or H.264 format. Fortunately, it is not the end of the world since some smart software developers have created special video to iPod convertors to overcome this shortcoming. Such video converters are mostly paid, but there are exceptions. You can try Free iPod Video Converter Version 1.32 which can be downloaded at freeware sites. It is capable of converting AVI, WMV, DivX, ASF and VOB files into iPod compatible format.
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