IPod Nano 4 has been released recently. Now more and more people are enjoying the colorful life brought by iPod. But some people still often get difficulties in putting their DVD and video on their iPod. This guide shows you how to do it step by step.
This guide includes two parts:
Part 1: How to rip any DVD to your iPod Touch/Nano 4/Classic
Part 2: How to transfer movie/video to iPod Touch/Nano 4/Classic
Part 1: How to rip any DVD to your iPod Touch/Nano 4/Classic
Step 0:[/b]Download and install
Cucusoft iPod Video Converter+Cucusoft DVD to iPod Converter Suite or  Cucusoft DVD to iPod Converter

[b]Step 1: Run the converter and Click DVD to iPod Converter component, load your DVD by clicking “Open DVD” button or choosing 'Open DVD' from 'File' drop down menu. Several titles appear in the list after loading DVD.
Tips: You can also select 'Open VOB or Mpeg' or 'Open IFO' from "File" to rip charpters or segments you like.

Step 2: As usual, the longest title is the main file of the movie. You can remove the title you don't like to convert by choosing the title, right-clicking and 'Remove'.
Step 3: [/b]Set 'Subtitle' to what you like. To 'Output Folder', Enter the full pathname or choose the path where you want to save your video files by clicking 'Output folder'.
[b]Step 4: [/b]Need not set 'Input settings' and 'Output Settings', just click 'Convert' to start ripping DVD to iPod video files.
[b]Trouble Shooting：
If during the converting period, an error message came up that said you did not have some DivX Pro codec supported software installed and refused to go any further, please download the free DivX codec from http://www.allforvideo.com/download/DivX6.exe and install. After installing, run the DVD to iPod converter, click 'Settings -> Output settings', choose 'DivX 6.0 codec' from 'Codec', and click 'Ok', then start converting.
Part 2: How to transfer movie/video to iPod Touch/Nano 4/Classic
Step 0: Download and install
Cucusoft iPod Video Converter+Cucusoft DVD to iPod Converter Suite or  Cucusoft iPod Movie/Video Converter
Related download
To convert RM/RMVB real media files to iPod, Maybe need to install Realplayer:
http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk
To convert WMV, ASF to iPod, Maybe need to install Windows Media Player:
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win, a/default.mspx[/url]

Step 1: Run iPod Video converter component, load the video files you'd like to convert by clicking 'Open file' button.
Step 2: Click 'Output' and choose the pathname where you want to save your video files. Click 'Convert' to start converting video to iPod MP4 or H264 MOV files.


Tips: Before converting, you can click 'Advance -> Video settings' to set 'Video format', 'Resolution', 'Framerate', 'Output Quality'. If you'd like to convert video to H264 .mov files, please set 'Video format' to 'H264(.MOV) FQ Variable Bitrate'. 'MPEG4 (.mp4) FQ Variable Bitrate' is the default value. Certainly, you can also set 'Audio Bitrate', 'Channels', 'Sample Rate' and 'Volume' in 'Audio Settings' page.
After converting, you can open the output folder to check the iPod video files.
Now you can drag your iPod videos to your iTunes then sync it with your iPod and enjoy it immediately.