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My New iPhone
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My New iPhone

by Wallace Wang
July 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
464 pages
11h
English
No Starch Press
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Putting Home Movies on Your iPhone

Grabbing TV shows and movies from iTunes is one way to load videos on to your iPhone, but buying new videos can get expensive. As an alternative, you can load your own video files into iTunes and transfer them to your iPhone. Then you can watch and enjoy movies of your child's first steps whenever you want on your iPhone.

You can play the following types of video files on an iPhone:

  • H.264

  • MPEG-4 (.mp4 and .m4v)

  • QuickTime (.mov)

Note

If you have video trapped in a different file format, such as AVI or WMA, you'll need to convert it into one of the supported file formats before you can play it on your iPhone. For a free video converter program that works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, grab a copy of Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/ ...

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