At this point there's no shortage of ways to transfer video to an iPod. But hey, here's two more.First up is iTube, a new application that lets you download YouTube videos to an iPod. All you have to do is enter the url of the video and iTube will download the video and convert it into an iPod-friendly format. It even imports it to iTunes for easy transfer to your iPod. iTube is free, but right now it only works with YouTube, and only on Windows computers. If you've got a Mac, check out DownloadSquad for a few other suggestions.
Next up, we've got a plugin for BeyondTV that lets you convert programs recorded on your computer to iPod format. It looks like a great little plugin, as it integrates with BeyondTV's interface, showing up as just another option on the program information screen. When you click "Copy to iPod" the plugin will convert the file and send it to iTunes for syncing with your iPod. Some users have had trouble getting the plugin to work, but it's free, and it seems to be under development. So if you've got BeyondTV and an iPod it might be worth checking out.
1. Does anyone know of a way to add this menu on a link machine?
I tried to add the property to the XML file as ti would show up on the main one, but it didn't seem to work. My ipod is hooked up to a link machine so it would be nice to try it.
Posted at 11:58AM on Nov 15th 2006 by Mike