I need to convert some of my movies and other videos for the iPad and I am wondering what solutions are available for this. Ideally, I would like to have something that adds the new video afterwards to my iTunes.
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Best Answer
Handbrake is a nice open source video conversion tool. Here is a blog post with some good info on settings to use for iPad rips/conversions.
As for getting videos added to iTunes automatically, that is not something Handbrake will do. If you are using OS X however, this AppleScript seems like it would be up to the task. The script watches a folder, when a file is copied in it waits for the file to stop getting larger (when the copy or encode [in this case] is finished) and then adds the item to your iTunes library. I haven't had a chance to test this for myself though, so I can't guarantee it will work as desired.