Ok, this one got to me today. I was throwing WTF’s around my cube for about an hour. Today I learned that in order to pull a movie from unitedstreaming and for it to show up and play on an iPod, you need to complete the following steps:
1. Visit unitedstreaming.com and select the content that you want to download for use on your iPod.
2. Make sure the content settings for what your downloading are set to Quicktime NOT Windows Media.
3. Click on the blue floppy disk download to computer button> select save to disk. (The file will show up on your desktop or wherever you had your download location set.)
4. Open iTunes.
5. Drag and drop or import the video file into iTunes. (It will show up somewhere in your iTunes Library.)
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6. Find your file in the iTunes library, select it and click on the Advanced tab on your Menu bar> select Convert selection to iPod/iPhone. You can also select the file> right click (PC users) or ctrl click (Mac) and select Convert selection to iPod/iPhone.
7. After conversion there will appear to be two of the same videos in your iTunes Library. One will be a copy of the video in Quicktime format, the other copy will be MPEG4 format. You can find the file format out by selecting the file and clicking ctrl i (PC) or apple i (Mac). You’re interested in the MPEG4 formatted file. MPEG4 plays nice with the iPod.
8. Connect your iPod to your computer and make sure iTunes is still open. Navigate to the movies section of iTunes and sync your device to transfer your new movie to your iPod.
Hope this helps.
