I have been reviewing ipod conversion software my main points while reviewing are..

• G5 Ipod support. (meaning 640x480 encoding)
• one click or as close to as possible
• dvd rip tools for 1 click or as close to as possible
• resize or crop ability for my 16x9 movies that i have all ready encoded in divx

after full review I have come up with the following product. Xilisoft / ImTOO. I dont know what the difference is between the products, its the same thing with different branding (the company’s share a copyright for the software). One item that they do not clearly define on the program is the crop tools. There is a definition for four crop modes. 16x9, Med, PanScan, Full.

I have taken screen shots of each type of “zoom” in 640 mode. the center is the original(wide) and the red and green bars are the “Med” (red) and Pan-Scan (green) the Full is totally out of ratio so I did not test it. (top left is pan top right is ‘med’ lower is the orginal with markups for crop)

 for 29$ you get the program and free updates to the code. This is handy since cracks cant keep up with updates, and hell support the fools that make this. it makes it better. i also want to toot a horn for the email support they have.

on the ipod they all look good, up to you on what you want to sacrifice for size. I personally use the “med” giving you a close match with out too much film loss. on television playback they all look good on a standard tv “dvd-quality” the same for the wide-screen with artifacts being just a little more noticeable.

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