Five simple steps: Converting videos for the iPad

While the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch are all excellent video devices, the problem is that they can play back only movies which are compatible with the H.264 standard. Unfortunately, many of us have multimedia collections encoded in DivX, Xvid or any of the myriad codecs out there.

Moreover, even if you have already converted your movies for your iPhone or iPod touch, the iPad’s higher screen resolution and different aspect ratio mean that the existing collection is not optimized for the slate tablet. The good news is that if you have kept your higher-resolution source files, you can easily encode them to fit your iPad’s screen. Here’s how. Read Nore