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If something happens to your computer or your hardrive and your iTunes library is wiped out, did you know that Apple doesn’t allow you to transfer the music and other files on your iPod to a new iTunes install?

This means all those valuable songs and videos that you’ve bought and paid for in iTunes and uploaded to your iPod cannot be downloaded from your iPod back to iTunes. Apple does this to prevent unauthorized sharing of “protected” content.

Unfortunately lots of people with legitimate reasons to transfer files from iPod to iTunes can’t do it with the factory iTunes settings. This is where you have to turn to third party software developers.

4Media iPod to Mac Transfer can help you rip and transfer files from iPod to iTunes on Mac easily and quickly, it is perfect iPod transfer, iPod ripping software specially designed for Mac users. Moreover, this Mac iPod copy software supports transferring files from iPod/iPhone to iTunes and managing your iPod on any Mac.

Guide: How to transfer files from iPod to iTunes on Mac

Step1: Download 4Media iPod to Mac Transfer and install it, an icon would be created on the desktop. Run 4Media iPod to Mac Transfer and insert your iPod/iPhone. Your device can be automatically recognized by the program.

Step2: Select the files that you want to transfer to Mac.
Open the library/playlist that you want to export files to, and then check the file(s) you want to export in the file list.

Step3: Click the “iPod to iTunes ” button to start transferring songs, videos, or photos to you Mac.

Transfer your iPod to iTunes – you can copy music, playlists, photos, contacts, calendars, notes and videos from any iPod or iPhone to iTunes.

It is possible to play Windows Media Video files (also known as wmv files) on a Mac. OS X does not come with any software that can play wmv files, but there is software you can download to get the job done. Three of the most common choices for playing wmv videos on a Mac are: Windows Media Player for Mac, Flip4Mac, and VLC.

Windows Media Player for Mac
Windows Media Player is available for Apple Macintosh computers. Microsoft no longer maintains or supports their WMP for Mac software, but they still provide it for you to download. You can download the software at Microsoft’s website.

When you go to the Windows Media Player 9 for Mac download page, you’ll be given a choice between a .bin file and a .hqx file. If you have an older Mac, you should download the .hqx file. If you don’t, then it doesn’t really matter. Just make sure you get the English version.

 

System Requirements

1. Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later 2. Mac OS X 10.2 or later recommended 3. 450MHz PowerPC G3 processor or higher recommended 4. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac, America Online for Mac OS X, Netscape 7.1, MSN for Mac OS X version 2.0, or Apple Safari 1.0

Flip4Mac
Since Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows Media Player for Mac, they have made the Flip4Mac program available in its wake. Flip4Mac is a program offered by Microsoft and Telestream that gives Quicktime the power to play WMV videos. You can download Flip4Mac from Microsoft’s website.

With Flip4Mac WMV installed, Windows Media files are associated with QuickTime. Opening a Windows?Media file from the Finder should automatically launch the QuickTime Player application. You can determine if?the file association is correct by examining the file icon:

A Windows Media file that is properly associated will display a QuickTime document similar to?the one shown here.

A Windows Media file that displays this type of icon is not associated with QuickTime. Opening?this file will launch Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X.

To re-associate a Windows Media file with QuickTime Player:
1. Hold down the control key and click the file icon to display the shortcut menu.
2. Choose Open with > WMV Player.
The WMV Player application changes the file association and then opens the file with QuickTime Player. For?convenience you can add the WMV Player application to your dock. Then, to re-associate a Windows Media?file simply drag and drop it onto the WMV Player icon.

One caveat of Flip4Mac is that it cannot play WMV video that uses Windows Media digital rights management, so some videos may not be viewable even though you’ve installed Flip4Mac

VLC media player

VLC is a media player like QuickTime and Windows Media Player. Many view VLC is a good alternative to the these traditional media players because VLC is available for many different operating systems and is an open source software project that is supported by many dedicated programmers across the world.

Until recently, only experimental versions of VLC for Mac OS X could play WMV videos, but no longer. VLC for Mac OS X now supports WMV video. You can download VLC from the VLC media player for Mac OS X   download page.

There are three types of downloads on this page: “Universal Binary”, “Intel Package”, and “PowerPC Package”. The Universal Binary should work on any Mac, the Intel Package is meant for newer Intel-powered Macs, and the PowerPC Package is meant for older Macs that use the PowerPC processor. If you are unsure of whether you’ve got an Intel Mac or a PowerPC Mac, use the Universal Binary Package.

Once downloaded, double click on the dmg file, wait for a Finder window to open, and then drag the VLC icon to your “Applications” folder.

In addition, VLC media Player supports audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

AVI is the most widely used video file on Windows, many player support this kind of video, like Window Media Player, Real Player, VLC Player, MPlayer, etc. To Mac users, they often use QuickTime movie, MOV, MP4, DV, M4V. So the problem comes. If you are a Mac user, and got .avi files from friends but can’t open it with QuickTime or make DVD with iDVD. It is annoyed, isn’t it?

Mac Video Converter is a must-have program for Many Apple Mac users. Only a few clicks, you can convert AVI to QuickTime understood files, MOV, MP4, DV, etc. Audio conversion are also supported, you can extract audio track from AVI to MP3, WAV, or AIFF. Once transform AVI to Mac QuickTime movie, you can import the new video into iDVD for making DVD. The following guide shows you how to convert AVI to iDVD for Mac OS.

Tutorial: How to convert AVI to iDVD MOV, MP4, DV, M4V, MP3 on Mac OS?

Download Video Converter for Mac Intel verison PowerPC verison

Locate AVI files
Open the source .avi files, and load them into Mac Video Converter, you can add one or multiple files at a time.

Specify output folder
Select the target video, MP4, MOV, DV, or M4V for iDVD. Appoint a place where you can easily find for the converted files.

Settings: AVI to iDVD
You can set the Resolution, Encoder, Bit rate and Frame rate for iDVD video and Sample Rate, Channels, Encoder and Bit Rate for iDVD Audio.

If necessary, you can make iDVD video editing, such as trim video clips, remove unwanted black sides, or apply special effects.
The last step is hit the Convert button to begin the conversion of AVI to iDVD on Mac OS.

This is the M2TS Converter for Mac User Guide. It tells the step-by-step way on how to use M2TS Converter for Mac to convert M2TS files to MPEG2, MOV, AVI, MP4, MPG, M4V, DVD

This version is for Apple Mac OS X . If you are using Windows™, please click here.

what is M2TS

Generally, a .M2TS file is a Sony high definition video file type. M2TS files are raw AVCHD videos recorded using Sony’s camcorders, such as the Sony HDR-SR1 and Sony HDR-SR5 models. Panasonic, Canon and other brands of AVCHD camcorders also record in M2TS format.

Currently, M2TS files can be played using the Picture Motion Browser, which is an application video player provided with Sony AVCHD camcorders. M2TS files can also be played with Mplayer, Windows Media Player and other media players if there is a codec for DVD playing installed. But the file type .M2TS is not always automatically associated with the player, so it may be necessary to open it from the player. That’s to say, it’s not convenient to play and enjoy your M2TS video.

how to use AVCHD M2TS video files and M2TS Converter?

Each of the AVCHD camcorders ships with software designed to playback the files on your computer. Sony’s HDR-SR1 and the newer HDR-SR5 both record video in the AVCHD format and ship with the Picture Motion Browser, which plays back AVCHD files on most computers. If you purchased one of the Panasonic AVCHD camcorders, the included HD Writer should allow you to playback video recorded with your camcorder.

Which Sony, Canon, Panasonic cameras and camcoders are supported by M2TS Converter for Mac?

M2TS Converter for Mac can handle M2TS files from HD video cameras and camcorers like Canon HR10, Canon HG10, Canon HF10 Panasonic AG-HSC1U, Panasonic HDC-DX1, Panasonic HDC-DX3, Panasonic HDC-SD1, Panasonic HDC-SD3, Panasonic HDC-SD5, Panasonic HDC-SD9, Sony HDR-CX6, CX7, Sony HDR-SR1, SR5, SR7, SR8, Sony HDR-SR11, SR12, Sony HDR-UX5, UX7, etc. Other HD video cameras and camcorders may supported as well. Please try to download and use it. M2TS Converter for Mac will not do harm to your files and devices.

How to convert M2TS files to MPEG2, MOV, AVI, MP4, MPG, M4V formats, etc. on Mac OS X with M2TS Converter?

Step 1: Free download M2TS Converter for Mac (Intel Version) and launch it.

Step 2: Launch the M2TS Converter for Mac

Click “Add Files” button to input AVCHD M2TS video files from HD camera/camcorders file(s):

Step 3: Select M2TS output MPEG2 or AVI or WMV or MP4 or QuicTime format from the Profile box. After you added M2TS files, you can select an output format for each video file and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files.
M2TS Converter supports comprehensive video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, MOV, XviD, 3GP, FLV, iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Cell Phone, Apple TV, Zune, Creative Zen, MP4 players and MP3 players and so on

Step 4: Edit M2TS files

1. Capture a clip from your video file

Click the Trim button to open the Trim window and trim the current video file by dragging the Start Time slider to set the start time and dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time.

2. Crop Movie Video

If you want to remove the black edges or just convert part of the video area from your video file, you can click the Crop button to crop the video of the current video file by dragging the frame around the video.

3. Video Effect

Click the Effect button and drag each effect adjustment slider to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation and audio volume. You can also choose to flip the video and apply a special video effect to your video file by selecting a special effect from: Gray, Emboss, Old Film and Negative.

You also turn to video settings like video aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, video codec, audio codec, sample rate, etc.

You can tick in the box to merge your several M2TS Video files files into one file

Step 5: Click button to start the AVCHD M2TS Video files conversion job.

Go to the output directly to find the converted AVCHD M2TS video files in MPEG2, AVI, QuicKTime, MOV, MP4 or WMV format.

With the powerful M2TS Converter for Mac, you can easily convert M2TS video files. And with it, you can also convert almost all HD video formats like MTS, TS, TP, TRP high defination video files easily. Just Free download M2TS Converter for Macand enjoy it.