What format does Apple family products support and how to get high quality videos and songs into Apple player

Recently Apple family has released popular media players such as iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, iPhone and apple TV. You may want to get your favorite movies and songs in your player from DVD, YouTube or any other ways. However, the Apple family products are different from each other. They support different audio and video formats. If you want to get your favorite movies and songs in your player you should know what format your player support. Now I will give you the detail information about their supported audio and video formats so that you can get perfect videos and songs into your Apple player.

iPhone
iPhone player support the audio formats: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), WAV
iPhone player video supports MPEG-4 format: 640 *480 pixels, up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, mp4, and .mov file formats

iPod Touch
iPod Touch also support the audio formats: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), WAV
iPod Touch video support MPEG-4 format: 640 *480 pixels, up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, mp4, and .mov file formats. It also support for 480p and 576p component TV out.

iPod Nano and iPod Classic support the same audio and video formats as iPhone.

iPod Shuffle support AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps) and WAV. It doesn’t support any video format.

Apple TV
Apple TV support the audio formats: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), WAV
Apple TV videos support MPEG-4 format: Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps (maximum resolution: 720 by 432 pixels at 30 fps) in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
OK, after acquire those information you can get movies and songs into your Apple player from DVD, YouTube and other format videos. If you want to get files from DVD, recommend you use Nidesoft DVD to iPod Converter as this software has full functions that enable you convert your DVD files to your Apple player and set your video and audio quality during conversion.
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After install this software you may convert your DVD files to your player in this step by step way:
Step 1: load DVD movies.
A. Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive.
B. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it. After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.

Step 2: you may customize the output videos more specific
Profile: click the button and show the list of profiles, you may view the profile for all the apple products, choose one according to your iPod player. For example, if you want to convert DVD files to iPod Touch, you may click “iPod Touch Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”
Settings: you have acquired detail information about each apple player’s supported format. Click setting button, you may set the video resolution and bitrate, audio channels and bitrate. In this way, you may customize high quality of your output files.

Step 3: start the conversion
After setting your videos, you may click the Convert button and soon you will get your perfect videos for your Apple player, just enjoy it.

Also, if you want to get movies and songs from YouTube video or other format video, you may use Nidesoft video converter to convert it. Free download it here and have a try:
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View the guide you can get how to use it step by step.

Ok, if your need further information about converting videos to Apple players you may send email to me: support@nidesoft.com. It’s my pleasure to help you solve your problem