Thursday, August 04, 2011

Handbrake for iPod Nano (5th Gen)

Handbrake is a descent tool. Recently I was working on a project that compress a homemade DVD into my iPod Nano (5th Gen). The steps are:

1. Install the Handbrake 0.9.5
2. Get the source video file into the local disk from the DVD
3. load the source video file in Handbrake
4. Select preset - Apple - iPod
5. Change the Average Bitrate to around 1000.
6. In "Picture" tab, change the Anamorphic to Strict.
7. Start to make the video file.
8. Load the output video file to iTunes.
9. Plug the iPod Nano. (I'm always set it to manual synchronize
10. Transfer the video to the iPod.
Done


But if you did not start from the preset, then there will be possible that even you have all the codec for video and audio set correctly, the video file cannot be transferred to the iPod nano.