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convert video for the ipod

Taking advantage of unlimited weekend minutes, my brother Seth and I were discussing DVD sharing yesterday. I have been wanting to get an electronic database of our family's books and DVDs going so that we could "check out" each other's stuff while keeping track of it at the same time. (I'm thinking Delicious Library could do the trick.) Seth countered with the suggestion of creating a "Himes Family Video Server" where we could rip our DVDs into MPEG4 and share them using iTunes, perhaps in a similiar fashion as "Share My iTunes Library" works. He then wondered about storing MPEG4s of DVDs on a Video iPod (which you can then share on TV, as I mentioned last month). We agreed that since one can already rip a DVD to MPEG4 then you could certainly store and view it on a Video iPod. I think we were right. Here's an article I found today on how to do it:

Playlist: Convert video for the iPod

We'll file this away 'til next Christmas, which is when we want to wait before asking for a Video iPod. We figure by then it'll be cooler than EVAR! But here's to the early adopters anyway.

;-)