The precess is very similar for each. We'll start with converting a single video file.
Click on the “Jobs” menu at the top of iRiverter. From there, scroll down to “New” and then select “Single Video.”
A new tab will appear in the iRiverter interface to reflect this new project.
Here you are presented with two boxes. The first box should reflect the location of the video file you wish to convert, while the second should contain the location and name of the file you wish the result from the conversion. While you can choose either by simply typing a file path into the boxes, it's often easier to click on the “Select” button beside each and browse to your chosen files. For example, if you had a video on your desktop that you wished to convert for use on the U10 you would do the following:
Click on the “Select” button to the right of the “Input” box. A new window will appear. On the left side of the window, there will be a button marked “Desktop.” Click on this button to view the contents of your Desktop. If you are not running Windows XP, and therefor do not have such a button present, you can instead you the “Look in” pull-down box at the top of the window to choose your Desktop.
As you can see, in this example, a single video is available on the Desktop. To choose it, I'll double-click on it. We then return to iRiverter. By default, iRiverter will automatically fill in the lower “Output” box with the same location as the original video. It will however give the new video a slightly different name. In this example, “New Order – Krafty.mpg” has become “New Order – Krafty.pmp.avi.”
This is often save a lot of time. Once the video is converted you can move or copy it wherever you like, including onto your U10. However, if you'd lake to give the new file and different name that iRiverter chooses automatically, you can alter it int eh text back or use the “Select” button to the right of the “Output” box to choose a new name or location.
Once you've chosen a video and made any changes to it's new file name or location, simple click on the “Jobs” menu and choose “Convert.”
Iriverter will then begin the conversion process. The time needed to transcode a given video is largely dependent on the speed of your PC. Iriverter will display the current speed of conversion and an estimate of the remaining time needed to complete it.
Once the conversion is done, simply click on the “Close” button below.
The steps for converting a folder full of files is largely the same.
As before, click on the “Jobs” menu move down the “New”, then click on “Directory” in the pop-out list.
As before, you'll be faced with two input boxes. In addition, you'll have the option of checking a box marked “Convert Subdirectories.” As the name implies, this check box controls whether or not iRiverter will search folders within the folder you specify for files to convert. For example, if you had a single folder with a dozen videos in it, you would not need to check this box. But if you had a single folder with additional folders for Music Videos, Movies, and TV Shows inside it, you would want to check the box.
Like converting single files, you simply chose the location of your video files by typing it into the “Input” box or by clicking the “Select” button and browsing to it. Iriverter will also automatically fill in a suggested new name and location for the converted files. In this example, I've selected a folder full of files called “videos” on my desktop. As you can see, iRiverter has suggested and automatically filled in the “Output” box with a new path. It will create a new folder in the same location titled “videos-pmp.”
Once your happy with your selections, click on the “Jobs” menu, and choose “Convert.” You will again be presented with a dialog that displays the progress and estimated time to complete your encoded files. Iriverter will convert all files int eh specified folder one after the other without user intervention. SO if you have a large number of files to convert, you may wish to start the job int eh evening and let it run over night.
To convert a DVD, insert it into your PC, wait a moment for the PC to initialize the disc, then click on the “Jobs” menu and move down to “New”, finally choosing DVD from the pop-out menu.
Iriverter will automatically scan any DVD drive in your PC for a DVD disc, and process the information it contains.
Once it's finished, you'll be presented with the following screen.
The settings are fairly simple, but require a little more information than converting existing videos. Firstly, if iRiverter has incorrectly chosen the wrong DVD drive on your PC, you can use the “DVD Drive” box to change it. Alternately you can select the folder of a DVD that you've already decrypted to your hard drive.
Below that, you need to select the Title you want to convert form the DVD. In many cases, there will only be one selectable title. If your given the choice of several, you generally want to choose the longest one, as it will generally be the movie or main feature of the DVD. Smaller ones are usually "extras." In the case of episodic DVDs, like TV-Series sets, you'll simply have to guess at which title is the episode you want, or simple convert all of them and rename them appropriately after conversion. You are also given the choice of including or excluding specific chapters within the Title-Set, but it's generally not needed.
In the "Languages" section, simply choose your preferred language of audio, and which (if any) subtitles you'd like to use. In the "Output" box, simply click on the “Select” button and browse to the folder and filename you'd like to save the converted video to. You can also type the path and filename directly into the box if you like as before.
When you're happy with your options, again click on the “Jobs” menu and choose “Convert.” As a general rule, DVDs will take longer to process as they require more alterations to be made playable and are in a much higher resolution that will need to be scaled down.
Once you have converted your videos, simply drag and drop them into the “Data\Video” folder of your U10 in explorer.