I am a windows guy through and through. I also use CUCUSOFT to convert my DVD-CLONER ripped movies. I now have about 50 movies on my iPAD in sizes from 200m to 1.1g, in lengths from 30 minutes to 3 hours. Ya gotta love the platform! Almost time to go out and pick up some new movies again. I buy the disk for the family, but convert it so I can watch it on the train.

Another great program for converting is AVS Converter 6 *cough* it's even better when you get a cracked version from TPB... *cough*

You can create your own presets for it and stuff... its great!

PC users can use Vuze to convert video formats. Open iTunes first, then Vuze sees it and offers a conversion. Also great for conversions for TIVO and XBox 360.

Newer TIVO will pick up Vuze on your network for transfer. (yea, nothing to do with iPad)

well, my suggestion is you should fet the formats is supported by iPad at first, then you transfer movie files to ipad via iTunes.
For ipad support formats, trun to apple ipad column: Apple - iPad - See the web, email, and photos like never before.
and there are discussion center about iPad use: Apple - Support - Discussions - iPad

Originally Posted by OUiPad

I have the movies already ripped and on a hard drive attached to my PC. I have the movies in two formats, .avi and .wmv. I have tried to drag and drop them to iTunes, I have also tried File, Add file to library, but no luck. There must be something glaringly obvious I am missing. What is it?

iTunes support mp4,mov.
convert your moves to mov/mp4.
Pavtube Video Converter iPad HD Video(*.mp4)
Video:
Codec: H.264
Size: 1280*720 or 768*576
BitRate: 4000kbps
FrameRate: 30.00fps
Audio:
Codec: AAC
SamplerRate: 48000hz
BitRate: 128000bps
Channel: 2

try pogoplug device with ipad. it's works well for me. now i hv 4TB of HD of storage and watch movies and retrieve any photos and even files anywhere on earth on my 3G wifi ipad.

I now have an ipad with 4TB of storage. yahooooooo..........

These guides that I made may help:

Convert Your Videos - Idiot Proof (Windows)

Video Converting Mega-Test!

Also, how do you make a thumbnail for your video as all we see is a computer icon. Not very clever.

Originally Posted by alice82bill83

hi, you should use ipad video converter to convert it to ipad format.
you can get more here:
DVD Ripper, DVD to iPad, Video Converter

Nah, Mp4 is already a iPad compatible format. All I had to do is to place the movie in the Library first and iTunes will make a Thumbnail automatically than you can drag it from Library to your iPad and voila.

Hope this will help others too.

Putting movies onto the iPad is really incredibly easy.

1) Download the free app - OPlayer HD

2) In iTunes click on Apps on the top menu bar

3) On the left hand column - Sync Apps - highlight OPlayer HD

4) The main white area of iTunes can be scrolled down to reveal info on the app

5) drag and drop virtually any movie format file into the OPlayer HD Documents box

6) Fire up OPlayer HD on your iPad and go to My Documents and you'll find your films.

7) Job Done.

Top tip: to delete a film, go to the OPlayer HD Documents box (per 5 above), highlight and press Backspace to delete.