iPodME

Latest version:
You must have the .Net framework (2.0+) installed to run it.
Version 1.2 / Sources

Old versions:
Version 1.1 / Sources

In order to use the subtitles option, you also need AviSynth: get AviSynth

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iPod Media Encoder converts video into an iPod-compatible format, the easy way. As I was bored with the already existing converters like Videora, Xvid4PSP etc, I made this simple & efficient video converter. The profiles should be easy enough to figure, and keep in mind that slower also means more quality.

The new video files are created in the same folder as iPodME.

Features:

- small (less than 3 Mb), no setup, only 1 exe to put where you want, no codecs needed (except for subtitles)
- based on ffmpeg
- easy to use, it’s impossible to do better on that point :)
- easy batch encoding, just select multiple files by clicking on the “add files” button or drap’n drop them into the list
- you can add new files to the batch during encoding
- run into background without disturbing your work (with the defaut priority option)
- 6 profiles adapted to most usage : 3 encoding speed, each optimized for file size or video quality
- possibility to customize the encoding options
- can burn .srt subtitles into the converted video (must be the exact same name as the input file)
- can shutdown your computer after encoding

History:
- 07/01/08 - Version 1.0:
* original release

- 10/01/08 - Version 1.1:
+ added support for .srt subtitles
+ added a custom profile to allow modification of the encoding profile
= adjusted profiles a bit for more quality & encoding speed
= fixed various bugs

- 19/02/08 - Version 1.2:
+ added automatic FPS detection/correction, correcting the “video can’t be added to iTunes problem”
+ added a rough ETA estimation for the current conversion
+ added a “shutdown when finished” option
+ added the possibility to use DirectShow codecs instead of internal ffmpeg’s codecs (should support video formats than can’t be decoded by ffmpeg, if you have the right codecs for it)
+ added help file
= corrected a bug with custom profiles (libx264 ones were missing an option causing the video to not be iPod-compatible)
= corrected a bug with the ouptut path: now it will always be the same path as where iPodME is
= fixed window size problem which occured on some computers

62 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Herber  |  January 20, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    hi thanks for all that make for us

  • 2. Adam  |  January 20, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    Very kool program. Simplicity is a feature =)

  • 3. Kriss  |  January 28, 2008 at 2:09 am

    I am downloading this, I’ll post back with results!!

  • 4. Albert  |  January 28, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    very nice… simple and efficient.
    Just one question: it only uses one core of the quad I use.
    Will it be fixed ?

  • 5. Noda  |  January 29, 2008 at 1:28 am

    There must be something wrong with your computer, as it was reported many times working nicely with the 2 or 4 cores used at 100%…

  • 6. Obscure  |  January 29, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    Do you think you could make this for all frameworks?

  • 7. Noda  |  January 31, 2008 at 5:08 am

    What do you mean? it should work nice also with .Net 3.0 or higher, 2.0 is minimum required.

  • 8. Brian  |  February 14, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    What video formats will it convert? AVI, MPG?

  • 9. Teslanaut  |  February 14, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    OS X Port? :D

  • 10. ItouchPod » Archive&hellip  |  February 14, 2008 at 10:53 pm

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  • 11. ItouchPod » Archive&hellip  |  February 14, 2008 at 11:18 pm

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  • 12. Ken  |  February 15, 2008 at 8:29 am

    Hi. I am deaf. I am using this but want to make sure English subtitles are shown for every video file i convert. Can you give me steps on how to do that? I did download AviSynth but not sure what to do next. Thanks much! Ken

  • 13. egraphix  |  February 15, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    absolutely fantastic.. converting dexter ep1×01 from a HD 700mb rip to mp4-utilises 3 cores off my intel quad. took about 9mins to re-encode and finished with a 174mb file.

    only probs i can see is video and audio can go out of sync if u skip through the video many times..

  • 14. realbigpimp  |  February 15, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    thanks man :) really appreciate that :)

  • 15. Bill Gates  |  February 16, 2008 at 4:28 am

    Someone here is a freak =]

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  • 17. freedreamer  |  February 16, 2008 at 11:20 am

    good work dude.
    a linux version is possible?

    thanks in advance

  • 18. Aide Ipod.... - Le Phocee&hellip  |  February 16, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    [...] peux utiliser ce logiciel, Ipod ME, qui est un logiciel libre et qui fonctionne trs bien: iPodME Noda’s Dev Projects [...]

  • 19. Juanra  |  February 16, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    I got an “ffmpeg.exe has stopped working” error on Vista 32bit.

    Any idea why?

  • 20. PS4Life  |  February 17, 2008 at 12:09 am

    so all i do is put my video in there and then it will convert it to ipod qualities?

  • 21. Eye-Pod  |  February 17, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    Hi, I want to feature an article about this in French; unfortunately I can’t use the software as parts of the GUI are not visible (such as the “Encode” button) and it’s not resizable!?
    I use Win XP on a Dell Laptop, with a Vista mod style, maybe that doesn’t help, but as is, I can’t use your software..
    Any suggestions?
    Thank you, Eye-Pod

  • 22. Jan  |  February 18, 2008 at 8:18 am

    Hi there.
    Very nice and simple program. Thank you so much.

    A liltte documentation about the profiles would be nice.
    Even nicer would a “Shutdown when finished” button be :-)
    An increase of the fontsize when “burning” subtitles into the movie would also be very nice.

    /Jan

  • 23. Pierre  |  February 18, 2008 at 9:15 am

    Super = too good.

    I would like to know what profile I should for best quality with smallest size, regardless of CPU usage (I got lots of CPU to spare).

  • 24. Noda  |  February 19, 2008 at 4:24 am

    you have to choose: best quality or smaller size.

    Then, the slower is the profile, the better is the quality.

  • 25. Jan  |  February 19, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    Noda wrote: “you have to choose: best quality or smaller size.

    Then, the slower is the profile, the better is the quality.”

    What does “slow, size” “Slow quality”, “Fast size”….. and so on mean?
    If I choose Custom and then “Best quality” and “x264″ iTunes says that my Ipod Touch won’t play the file.

    Which profile should I use?

  • 26. Noda  |  February 19, 2008 at 11:14 pm

    this bug has been corrected.
    as for the profiles, everything is explained in latest version help.

  • 27. Eye-Pod  |  February 20, 2008 at 5:40 am

    Test-opened the new version: looks great! Now will test on a movie, article coming up then.
    Thank you very much, impressively fast reaction!
    regards
    Joe

  • 28. Victor Prodescu  |  February 21, 2008 at 10:44 am

    ipod owner; cannot view AVI movies with subtitles

  • 29. Jan  |  February 22, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Thank you so much for making the “Shutdown when finished” button. Fantastic application - nice and simple :-)

  • 30. Jake  |  February 22, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    Hi

    Program works, but everytime I start to convert, I get the message “An error occured while detecting video format. The output video may be unreadable”.

    I tried iPodME on three different computers (vista, xp, xp); all showed the same problem.

    What am I doing wrong and how can I solve this problem?

    It drives me nuts to always press “OK” before another file starts to convert. It should proceed automatically without this error message, right?

    Thanks for your help!

  • 31. Anonymous  |  February 23, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    good program… except for that little delay problem..
    does the frame rate must be an int like you use in your program?

  • 32. Noda  |  February 23, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    Jake> that’s because your video must use a format that ffmpeg doesn’t recognize.

    Anonymous> the frame rate is adjusted to the nearest correct fps value: 10, 12, 15, 20, 24000/1001 (23.97), 24, 25, 30000/1001 (29.97), 30.

  • 33. Adam  |  February 23, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    Hey can someone help me. THis converter keeps saying error everytime i try to convert a movie

  • 34. dave  |  February 24, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    Great program, but one request.

    It would be nice to be able to choose the save location.

    Just ran it for the first time and had to hunt hi and low to see where it had saved it.
    It put it into this directory:

    c:\users\*username*\appdata\local\temp\rar$ex00\

    Strange location.

  • 35. Noda  |  February 24, 2008 at 10:31 pm

    dave> the video is saved in the same directory as iPodME.

  • 36. dave  |  February 24, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    Thanks noda,
    Just changed it location and tried again, yes it saved it in the right place this time.

    Another problem thou.

    The saved file after conversion when double clicked under vista says :

    ‘Error -2048: couldnt open file becasue its not a file that quicktime understands.’

    Now the file has an icon showing its an MPg4, itunes doesnt recognise it and using gspot the only information it shows is the container :

    ‘isom:MP4 Base Media v1[iso 14496-12:2003]
    -mp41: MP4 v1 [ISO 14496-1:ch13]

    any ideas whats going on?

    I’m using vista 64bit

  • 37. Miasik.net&hellip  |  February 26, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    I znów iPod touch, filmy i napisy

    Okazał się, że istnieje prostsze niż opisywane przeze mnie rozwiązanie kwestii filmów na moim iPodzie touch - program iPodME.
    Ściągamy program, ściągamy także program AVISynth, który jest niezbędny do dodania napisów. Instalujemy AVISynth…

  • 38. Genesis  |  February 27, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    Hello. Trying to make it work, unsuccessfully so far.
    Trying to convert an avi file using the .srt option (AviSynth 2.5.7 installed). It starts the conversion and after a moment it stops automatically and give this log:
    =======LOG============
    Ready.

    ffmpeg.exe -y -i “C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Configurações locais\Temp\lz1×1myp.m2a\video03.avs” -f mp4 -r 30000/1001 -vcodec libx264 -level 30 -crf 24 -ab 128k -subq 4 -refs 2 -me hex -partitions +parti4×4+partp4×4+partp8×8+partb8×8 -s 432×320 -maxrate 1500k -bufsize 4M -g 250 -coder 0 -threads auto -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 “F:\Videora Input Video Test\video03.mp4″

    FFmpeg version Sherpya-r11881, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
    libavutil version: 49.6.0
    libavcodec version: 51.50.0
    libavformat version: 52.7.0
    libavdevice version: 52.0.0
    built on Feb 9 2008 06:54:05, gcc: 4.2.3
    Input #0, avs, from ‘C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Configurações locais\Temp\lz1×1myp.m2a\video03.avs’:
    Duration: 00:00:10.0, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 0 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, rgb32, 1284×56 [PAR 0:1 DAR 0:1], 55222 kb/s, 24.00 tb(r)
    Output #0, mp4, to ‘F:\Videora Input Video Test\video03.mp4′:
    Stream #0.0: Video: libx264, yuv420p, 432×320 [PAR 0:1 DAR 0:1], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 29.97 tb(c)
    Stream mapping:
    Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
    [libx264 @ 00A26BF0]using cpu capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 SSE3 Cache64
    Press [q] to stop encoding

    video:47kB audio:0kB global headers:1kB muxing overhead 6.845632%
    [libx264 @ 00A26BF0]slice I:2 Avg QP:23.32 size: 22236
    [libx264 @ 00A26BF0]slice P:296 Avg QP:25.26 size: 14
    [libx264 @ 00A26BF0]mb I I16..4: 33.0% 0.0% 67.0%
    [libx264 @ 00A26BF0]mb P I16..4: 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% P16..4: 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:99.9%
    [libx264 @ 00A26BF0]ref P 98.9% 1.1%
    [libx264 @ 00A26BF0]SSIM Mean Y:0.9953778
    [libx264 @ 00A26BF0]kb/s:39.1
    Ready.
    ==============================

    The result is a 51kb size MP4 file containing a 10-sec stretched message saying:
    LoadPlugin: unable to load C:\XXXX\vssfilter.dll
    C:YYYYYY\video03.avs line 2″

    What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any info.

  • 39. Noda  |  February 27, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    That’s strange. You can try installing vobsub filter as explained in the help (problem with subtitles)

  • 40. AFX  |  February 29, 2008 at 7:07 am

    This is a pretty fuckin sweet program, Im getting 240FPS off a quad 6700 which is MUCH better than the 40-50 on all other programs.

    Very well done, you should be proud.

  • 41. Cristian  |  February 29, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    Noda, i have the same problem than Genesis, and i have the vobsub but didn’t work

  • 42. Genesis  |  March 2, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    Cristian/Noda:

    Vobsub didn´t work for me either. I even copied the vsfilter.dll to system32 sudir as requested. No good at all.

    FYI: IPodME works flawlessly if I don´t use subtitles. Maybe there´s a bug between IPodMe/AVISynth interface (just a guess). My procedure nowadays to make an iTouch video with subtitles is burning the subtitle to the AVI using VirtualDubMod+TextSub filter (time consuming… ;) and then converting the subtitled AVI to MP4 using iPodME.
    Any suggestions?

    Great software, anyway. Congrats.

  • 43. lilbug200  |  March 4, 2008 at 12:12 am

    can anyone please help me, i just finished converting about 10 videos but i have no idea where they were saved to or how to find them..please help

  • 44. dru  |  March 4, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    ok…so i select a file to convert, press convert, and then the file disappears..? what gives? thanks. (using v.1.2)

  • 45. Dru  |  March 5, 2008 at 4:06 am

    btw, its an mpeg format off of a dvd. Thanks.

  • 46. cereal_killer  |  March 5, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    Great prog, like how lightweight it is. I’ve converted 54 movies for my ipod touch 16 gb (couldn\t fit emall in one try though :P) Awesome werk! I leave my pc on for days just converting and converting!

    Greatings from the [m0w] Team

  • 47. Rebecca  |  March 8, 2008 at 2:50 am

    I’m finding the audio gets slightly out of synch with the video, but other than that, it’s great. Any ideas why I’m getting the synch problem?

  • 48. Rebecca  |  March 8, 2008 at 3:09 am

    The mp4 file will not synch to my ipod. It will go into Itunes and play through itunes with no problem, but when I try to synch to ipod it says it does not recognise the format, so it will not put it on the ipod.

  • 49. aleks  |  March 11, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    moskov

  • 50. rags  |  March 14, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    so hwo do i download it?

  • 51. Mauricio  |  March 23, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    The app rocks. Congrats on a great implementation of a very useful idea. I’ve been having trouble with audio sync, but i haven´t seen anyone else comment this. Am I doing something wrong? My PC is a 2.8Ghz with 1Gb RAM…
    Thansk a lot!!!! Subtitle function is awesome

  • 52. Chris  |  March 26, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    Hey, I’m having mixed results at the moment.
    When I convert videos at 640×480 using the profile Slow Quality, I get the same problem as Rebecca, it is recognised in iTunes but won’t sync with my iPod despite being an mp4 file.
    Great app. though, thanks!

  • 53. Chris  |  March 26, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    Oh yeh, I’ve got a 5G iPod if that makes a diference?

  • 54. jon  |  April 1, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    Hey,

    Really good program!
    Only one problem, like Genesis. But it happens only when I add to the “list to convert” a file located on my external HD. If I put this file on my Internal HD, there is no problem anymore!
    Do you know from were it could be coming from?

    Thanks for your help and your Job!

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  • 56. John  |  April 18, 2008 at 7:31 am

    Excellent program! Any chance of getting support for FLV files?

  • 57. John  |  April 18, 2008 at 8:13 am

    Please ignore my comment above. FLV works perfectly, don’t know what I did wrong before.

  • 58. Martin  |  April 18, 2008 at 8:41 am

    Thanks for this program, it works perfectly and its easy to use, and it eats all my videos.

    Nice work and thx

  • 59. 4010  |  April 27, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    Really cool app, thanks a lot!

  • 60. Vince  |  May 4, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    I have the same problem as Genesis :(
    Tried te reinstall avisynth, didn’t work. Without subs it works perfect … like many other programs –> I want those subs!!! :’(

  • 61. Vince  |  May 4, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Found a solution!!!:

    - Remove avisynth 2.5
    - Install avisynth 2.0.8 ;) works for me

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