The iPod Touch is a portable media player and Wi-Fi mobile device designed by Apple Inc; announced on September 5, 2007. It adds the Multi-Touch graphical user interface to the iPod line and is available with 8, 16, or 32 GB of flash memory. It includes Apple's Safari web browser and is the first iPod with wireless access to the iTunes Store. With a software update, which is sold by Apple, it also has access to Apple's App Store. In a word, it supports music, audiobook, podcast, application and video. So, most iPod Touch users like to play music and watch movies on this beautiful handset. However, according to iPod Touch's official page, there are many techinical specifications as follows for iPod Touch video file:

Video Format: MP4, MOV, M4V
Video Size: up to 640x480
Video Framerate: up to 30fps
Video Bitrate: up to 1.5Mbps for H.264, or 2.5Mbps for MPEG-4
Audio: AAC up to 160Kbps, 48kHz

For this reason , if you have an iPod Touch and want to play movies on it, you need to convert the video first. Follow below steps to get iPod Touch playable videos. (If you're using a Mac, please check this Mac tutorial)


Step 1 : need a converter

To convert video for iPod Touch, you need a video converter. Download and install Any Video Converter from by clicking .

Step 2 : select iPod Touch video format

Launch converter and in the program, select Apple iPhone/iPod Touch MPEG-4 Movie from Profile drop down list.



Step 3 : convert video

Press Add Video button to add video in the program and press Encode button to convert:



Or just drag and drop the video from hard disk to program.


Step 4 : find output file

Once encoding is finished, go to left panel, click on the Apple iPhone label. And in the middle window, right click on the converted file and select Open File Location, then you can check this video in the output folder from the hard drive.





Step 5 : import video into iTunes

Launch iTunes, go to menu File > Add File to Library to import target movie from output folder into iTunes; or just drag and drop the movie into iTunes.

Step 6 : transfer video to iPod Touch

There are many ways to transfer converted video to iPod Touch through iTunes after it's connected with your computer via USB cable.
1) Press the Sync button under Summarytab. This will sync the videos as well as other items like music, TV shows, podcasts, audiobook, photos and applications;
2) Under Movies tab, select Sync movies > All movies, and press Sync button;
3) Under Movies tab, select Sync movies > Selected movies, choose the video in the pane, and press Sync button.
Or check this syncing tutorial page to know more on how to sync your devices with iTunes.



After a while, the sync will be complete. Now, check your iPod Touch:



Have fun!

How to rip DVD and convert video to iPod Touch/Nano/Classic/Video
iPod can only play MP4 and H.264 video, but DVD movie is MPEG-2 video and CSS protected, so you need an application to rip DVD and convert video to MP4 video, and then sync it to iPod via iTunes. I strongly recommend Aimersoft iPod Converter Suite; it can rip protected DVD and convert limewire, youtube video, AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, FLV, DivX, XviD video to iPod. Also, I always use the iPod manager embedded in it to transfer video, and from my tests, it fully supports all series of iPod including iPod Touch/Nano/Classic/Video. A really cool application.



Here is its official download link:
Aimersoft iPod Converter Suite - iPod Nano/Touch/Classic Movie/Video Converter
Here is the official step by step guide
How to Copy DVD to iPod, eidt DVD movie for iPod and put DVD movie on iPod
If you want to rip copy-protect DVD movie to iPod on Mac OS, you can use Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac from here, it has two version for both Intel Processor and Power PC
Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac – best Mac DVD Ripper, copy DVD on Mac

MelodyCan Video Converter- Excellent program for converting of

multimedia-files of various formats between itself!

Tips:

* supports conversion between the files of the followings formats: AVI, MPEG1,MPEG2, WMV, MOV, RM, MP4, DivX.
* supports the package converting.
* allows to extract audio paths from video files to mp3, wma, wav formats.
* Works on x64 Vista/XP!



MelodyCan popular video conversion tasks are:

* Convert iTunes video
* Convert drm protected video files
* Convert video to iPod
* Convert video to AVI
* Convert itunes movie to wmv
* Convert protected WMV
* Convert WMV to AVI
* Convert video to MP4
* Convert DivX to MP4
* Convert MOV to MP4
* Convert RM video
* iPod video converter
* Convert video to audio

Here is an all-in-one DVD ripping and video converter program that can rip all kinds of DVD's and convert various videos to audio/video formats compatible with almost all popular mobile devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Apple TV, Mobile Phone, to name just a few. It works like a charm!

You can also use Any DVD Converter to rip a DVD and then convert it to MPEG-4 format for use on Apple iPhone/iPod Touch. Any DVD Converter cannot rip protected DVDs, however, you can use a freeware DVDSmith Movie Backup to copy the entire DVD folder to your hard drive, and then use Any DVD Converter to add the entire dvd folder and then follow the above tutorial "How to convert video and transfer it to iPod Touch"