iRiver Video Converter, Video to iRiver

iRiver is a brand and division of ReignCom, manufacturer of digital audio players and other portable products and has made some lovely-looking MP3 players over the years. One of the currently selling products is iRiver X20. iRiver X20 has a nice screen and an easy-to-use interface. iRiver X20 is mainly sold in Asia and is selling in capacities of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB and comes with only black color. iRiver X20 has an FM tuner and a voice recorder. iRiver X20 includes a microSD card expansion slot for adding more memory. and dual external speakers. iRiver X20 supports viewing JPEG photos. iRiver X20 can play MP3, WMA, DRM protected WMA, OGG and WAV audio files. iRiver X20 also support video playback, the supportable video formats are WMV9 SP in WMV extension and MPEG-4 SP in AVI extension up to 30fps.

For more details of specifications of iRiver X20, please visit iRiver's official website.

Now let's have a look at how to convert video files for iRiver X20. iRiver X20 supports only certain .avi files and Windows Media (.wmv) files. iRiver X20 includes a bundled video converter, however it is not powerful enough. You may hesitate about choosing a video converter and wonder how to convert different video formats for iRiver X20. With Any Video Converter Professional, it's all that simple. Any Video Converter Professional is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It's exactly what you need. Any Video Converter convert videos to WMV or AVI playable on iRiver X20, it works as an iRiver video converter.

First step, download Any Video Converter Professional from Any Video Converter website and install it. Trial version can convert 3 minutes of each file and there is no other limitation.

  

Launch Any Video Converter Professional. Click Add Video button to add the video files you want to convert for iRiver X20. Any Video Converter Pro also supports converting online videos like YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe and Japanese Nico Video to other video formats directly. What you need to do is just to paste the URL of your favourite onlien video to the program. Meanwhile, Any Video Converter Professional also downloads the video to local hard disk for your further usage.

Second step, find and unfold iRiver group in output profile list and set iRiver B20/X20/Clix 2/E100/Lplayer Movie (*.avi) as output profile. Set Video size to 320 x 240 and set video framerate according to your need. The video codec can be mpeg4 or xivd.

Third step, click Encode button to start converting. After encoding is finished, click Output Folder buttons in the left bottom and you can find the output files.

You may also need to rip DVD for iRiver X20. With Any DVD Converter Pro, you can easily rip DVD to AVI formats compatible with your iRiver X20. Any DVD Converter Pro works perfectly as it's Any Video Converter Pro plus a DVD ripper. Download Any DVD Converter Pro to have a try!

  

Before ripping DVD, unfold DVD Options in the right settings panel, set Audio Language to the one you would like the movie's sound to play in. You can also set subtitile language and angle. If you don't like the DVD to be seperated as titles, click Edit >> Options >> DVD and check. For some copy-protected DVDs, you can try DVDSmith Moive Backup which is a free program that can help you copy entire DVD to hard disk, or Any DVD Cloner, which helps you to make perfect copies of your DVD collection.

After the video files or DVD are converted to iRiver X20 compatible video files, you need to transfer them to the player. For that, you can download the free iRiver Plus 3 desktop software from the company's Web site, or install it from the bundled disc, but you'll need to provide contact details and a serial number. If you start iriver PLUS3 while iRiver X20 is connected, the details of the iRiver X20 will be displayed through the status window and iriver PLUS3 will be ready for data transfer automatically. Just select the files you want to send and click the transfer button.

iRiver X20 also allows you to select either Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) or Mass Storage Class (MSC) transfer mode. In MSC mode, you can use Windows Explorer to drag and drop most content, not including DRM protected contents, into the appropriate folder on the player, which shows up as a drive when connected and set to data transfer mode. In MTP mode, you can use Windows Media Player 10 or 11, or iRiver Plus3 to manage and sync files, including DRM protected contents.

After the files are successfully transferred to iRiver X20, you can enjoy your video files as you like.