So I decided to make my iPhone useful for the trip tonight. I started watching Gossip Girl (yay me) two days ago as I officially have NOthing to do, except getting ready for the trip (as far as I remember.)
Hence, Gossip girl will go to my iPhone videos list, but the question is, HOW?
all the episodes I have are in AVI format, and I need to convert them to either MP4 or M4V to be able to iTune them.
First I had to find a converter for Windows, these are the ones I found with a brief review:
- Handbreak:
pros: free, open-source, has multiple presets for compact devices
cons: requires microsoft .NET framework to work on Windows.
- Avex Software, Videora:
cons: Shareware crap, enncodes only 5 minutes of the video
- 4MEDIA
cons: Shareware, encodes first 5 mins only, the output screen size options are not for iPhone and cannot be modified.
- iReverter
pros: free, open-source, small size
cons: it’s in JNLP format, requires some stuff like OpenJNLP. That didn’t open it.
- WinFF
pros: free, open-source, simple interface, many options for screen size and output and it ACTUALLY WORKS!
cons: none yet
WinFF is based on FFMPeg conversion software. Select “convert to..” iPod-iTunes, change “device preset” to iPod widescreen.
Wait for some time and then drag that into iTunes and Sync your video..
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I wonder if upgrading to OS 3.0 will allow me to use my sim.. I got my iPhone before Etisalat officially delivered it, so mine is “jailbroken” just to have it work with my Etisalat SIM. Now it’s official and all.. I just don’t know if its going to work or not..
