Not Yet Rated Adding Video to your Zune, having a hardtime

#  Dec 31, 2006 at 6:53 PM

Join Date: Dec 31, 2006 Post Count: 2   leslieas User Options View All Posts By leslieas View leslieas's Stats     We have gone thru the tutorial and are getting very frustrated. We have not been able to successfully add a video to our new zune. What am i missing?

#  Jan 01, 2007 at 7:25 AM

Join Date: Dec 26, 2006 Post Count: 17   rafb86 User Options View All Posts By rafb86 View rafb86's Stats     are you sure the videos that you are trying to add are in wmv format?

#  Jan 01, 2007 at 8:12 PM

Join Date: Dec 31, 2006 Post Count: 2   leslieas User Options View All Posts By leslieas View leslieas's Stats     I am checking right now. Are they convertable? Is there a place that i can get a video to atleast makes sure that i have the right process going on?

#  Jan 02, 2007 at 4:59 AM

Join Date: Dec 26, 2006 Post Count: 17   rafb86 User Options View All Posts By rafb86 View rafb86's Stats     yes they are convertible but it requires a third party software, i have yet to find any free ones but i was lucky enough that most of my videos were already in wmv format.

#  Jan 04, 2007 at 9:43 PM

Join Date: Jan 04, 2007 Post Count: 9   Loopie User Options View All Posts By Loopie View Loopie's Stats     google magic dvd ripper and download it, set it to the ipod setting (this is mp4 which the zune software understands), and you can open and close the program 5 times with the trial w/o a serial....which is a lot better than the 5min thing for most.....then convert, and add into your library, and presto

#  Jan 05, 2007 at 6:06 AM

Join Date: Dec 26, 2006 Post Count: 17   rafb86 User Options View All Posts By rafb86 View rafb86's Stats     thanks loopie i'm trying it now!

#  Jan 14, 2007 at 4:47 PM

Join Date: Jan 12, 2007 Post Count: 223   taiarain User Options View All Posts By taiarain View taiarain's Stats     My mpeg4's weren't sync'ing automatically. I ended up creating a video playlist and dragging that to the manual sync. Worked like a charm.

#  Jan 20, 2007 at 4:13 AM

Join Date: Jan 20, 2007 Post Count: 7   mike360 User Options View All Posts By mike360 View mike360's Stats     I dont know if this helps anyone but i have tryed winavi. It it converts dvd to avi and wmv and any video to avi wmv. It works very well, im watching superman returns on my zune right now!!

#  Jan 20, 2007 at 6:15 AM

Join Date: Dec 20, 2006 Post Count: 234   Zune User User Options View All Posts By Zune User View Zune User's Stats     Hmmm, winavi huh? I'm gonn have to check that out.

#  Jan 25, 2007 at 3:28 AM

Join Date: Jan 25, 2007 Post Count: 71   Schwarz User Options View All Posts By Schwarz View Schwarz's Stats     I've finally found a good vid converter program that is free! It installs with all needed codecs etc. It has worked well for the three or four files I've needed to convert. The developer's site is: SUPER ? . The program isn't super fancy...right-click in the program window to bring up a menu. Hope this helps!!