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iPod users are no longer limited to the pre-formatted videos that are available. InterVideo has today announced InterVideo iVideoToGo, which it claims is the easiest way to copy personal videos for playback on a video-enabled iPod.

Priced at only £19.99, the software offers a 3-step solution that lets you quickly convert your existing DVDs and video files into iPod-compatible files that provide ‘smooth, flawless playback’. There’s also a version available for Sony PSPs.

Promising to be one of the fastest conversion tools on the market, iVideoToGo is equipped with a simple, friendly interface and it utilises a single window for all tasks, claims the company. And with just three steps to complete the copy process, there’s no learning curve -even a beginner can have immediate success.

The 30GB 5th Generation iPod (with video), which was released mid-October 2005, supports MPEG-4 and H.264 video formats and stores more than 150 hours of video. According to American Technology Research, sales of Apple’s video-enabled fifth-generation iPod are stronger than expected and in some cases are outselling even the very popular iPod nano.

In addition to supporting the iPod’s H.264/MPEG-4 formats iVideoToGo supports DVD-Videos, AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, DivX, ASF, DVR-MS, 3GP and others - more than any other program of its kind.

To deliver support for these formats, iVideoToGo includes InterVideo’s H.264 codec technology. H.264, which is also known as the Advanced Video Codec (AVC) specification or MPEG 4-Part 10, provides two to three times the compression efficiency of current solutions such as the MPEG-2 standard, enabling IVideoToGo users to pack even more movies and music on their iPods.

With H.264 support, InterVideo has also future-proofed its new iVideoToGo software because H.264 is the digital video codec specified for the next-generation Blu-ray (BD) and HD DVD formats.

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