Apple Addin Movies / Videos Ipod Touch 4g

[kamala]

Hi I'm a noob at this and I've seen a lot of videos on how to do this however I seem to have lot of problem doing it myself because I'm stuck in a certain part. I bought an I-pod touch yesterday and I decided to add a video. My I-tunes display the movie tab as this:

Most of the tutorials I've seen display the movie's tab in a list format allowing users to drag the converted (.mp4) videos directly into without any problem. In my case if I drag a video into it it does nothing no warning not anything.

Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong.

 

[Thanatos Telos]

Hi I'm a noob at this and I've seen a lot of videos on how to do this however I seem to have lot of problem doing it myself because I'm stuck in a certain part. I bought an I-pod touch yesterday and I decided to add a video. My I-tunes display the movie tab as this:

Most of the tutorials I've seen display the movie's tab in a list format allowing users to drag the converted (.mp4) videos directly into without any problem. In my case if I drag a video into it it does nothing no warning not anything.

Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong.

Where are you dragging it towards?
Which iPod i.e. gen?

 

[HackAllDevices]

You may need to update iTunes.

 

[Izen]

iTunes cannot handle every .mp4 file. Here's a quote from a website I found doing a quick google search.

However, the video especially the MP4 video must meet the following specifications: it must be encoded as 540 kbit/s (minimum) MPEG-4 video (H.264) with an approximately 128 kbit/s AAC audio track or encoded as 1.5 Mbit/s (minimum) MPEG-4 video (H.264) with a minimum 128 kbit/s AAC audio track. If not, you will fail to import MP4 to iTunes.

So there you have it. You can use a video converter to upscale the .mp4 to meet the specifications, but I would suggest using .m4v format. iTunes works much more nicely with .m4v than .mp4.