So maybe you’ve got yourself an iPhone or an iPod Touch. Those are wonderful devices to play videos on. If you do not have one, may be you are thinking of getting one? I know a lot of people are thinking of getting the new higher capacity 32GB iPod Touch.

However, iPods and iPhones doesn’t just play any video codec you dump at it. It is not like we can browse and buy movies and TV shows from the iTunes Store either. I’m pretty sure each of us have our ways of getting all our media needs.

*cough*bittorent*cough*

So how do you convert all you video collection to play on your brand new iPod Touch? This is where ffmpegX comes in. It is the ultimate video and audio encoder for Mac OSX.

So far it manage to take any video with any format I throw at it and covert it to an iPod playable format. It is fairly easy to use. Drag and drop the video file you want to convert to the left box and choose what format you want to re-encode it to.

It doesn’t just only convert to an iPod playable format, there is also some other preset format for PSP, 3GP for handphone, and other types of format.

The software is a shareware, but you could try it for free or for just $15 you could register it. Registering will remove the reminder message.

However it takes a long time converting a movie. I usually let it run overnight. Then again my machine is a 1GHz PowerBook G4. Newer Intel Macs might be a little bit faster.