Best solution for Zune video conversion

Want to rip your DVD or convert movie files to your Zune device? You are at the right place! This video Zune converter guide describes the best way for Zune video encoding. You can transfer some video formats to Zune without any converting, or quickly convert media files for your Zune with freeware, or directly rip DVD to Zune with ease.

How to put youtube FLV on Zune with freeware?
How to rip DVD to Zune, convert almost all video formats to Zune WMV?

1) Natively supported video formats for Zune

Microsoft Zune player supports WMV, WMA, MP3, AAC natively. You can sync the following movies and music to Zune device directly without any converting process.

Video: WMV (up to 320x240, 1.5Mbps video bitrate, 30fps frame rate; With WMA audio up to 192Kbps audio bitrate, 44.1kHz sample rate)
Audio: WMA, MP3, AAC, M4A, M4b, MP4 (up to 320Kbps bitrate, 48KHz sample rate)

Hints: To 16:9 widescreen videos, the resolution is 320x180.
Hints: Zune only supports unprotected media files unless they are purchased or downloaded from Zune Marketplace.

2) Straight convert Zune video with Zune software during sync

If the movies you downloaded online or your personally created videos don't meet the limitations which Zune carries (such as any specific parameter is exceeded), but they can be imported into Zune software and played back successfully, then Zune software will convert the media files in the background during synchronization.

Supported formats for Zune software are as follows:

Video: WMV, MP4, M4V, MOV, H.264 with various video sizes, bitrates, frame rates
Audio: MP3, WMA, M4a, M4b, MP4 with no any limitation

3) DVD and all popular video formats to Zune encoding

If you'd like to rip DVD to Zune video/Zune audio file formats, or convert video/movie clips to Zune, just download Zune Video Converter to get your job done. It supports converting DVD, AVI, DivX, MPEG, WMV, Youtube, FLV, TiVo, XviD, DVR-MS, ASF, Rm, etc to Zune (WMV, MPEG-4, WMA, MP3, H.264).

1. Load your DVD(s) or video file(s) into the software.

2. Select the target Zune formats (support 'Zune video WMV 7/8/9', 'Zune audio WMA', 'Zune video MP4', 'Zune audio MP3', 'TV size MP4' and 'H.264'), set the optional parameters to what you like, then start Zune video conversion or Zune audio ripping.

3. Drag the created file to Zune media library and sync to your Zune player after converting. The process is fairly quick as well, less than 5 minutes for a 2-hour movie.

4) Convert Youtube to Zune, FLV to Zune

The recommended Youtube FLV to Zune conversion solution: Download Zune Video Converter for free, install and launch, load your Youtube videos into the software, choose the output format you like, then start the fast conversion process. Very simple to use but excellent output quality.

The online solution: Just tell FLV Online Converter (freeware) the link which embedded the youtube video, select the output format, click 'Start' button, the free youtube conversion software will quickly convert the video and give you the link to download the result file.

1. Run Internet Explorer, go to http://vixy.net/flv_converter

2. Input the FLV file's URL (such as http://www.zunevideoconverter.com/example.flv) or the web page that included the movie (such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avc3sn_ZIk0). And choose 'MP4 for iPod/PSP' from 'convert to'.

3. Hit 'Start'. After a while, download the file that you converted youtube video to.

4. Transfer the MP4 to your Zune player by Zune software. The mp4 files will be converted to WMV automatically.

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