It’s been about two weeks since I received my iPod 60 GB with video functionality. The device is just amazing. The video quality is great. I guess the only bad thing to say about the player is battery life when playing video and format support.

Since I have a Windows Media Center Computer I’ve been looking at different ways to integrate recorded TV on the iPod. Tony Northrup over at Microsoft wrote an article on how to copy recorded TV shows from Media Center to iPod. I discuss two approaches, one using MyTV ToGo, which is a commercial product and one tying together free tools.

The free approach is the most interesting one. He basically integrates DVRMSToolbox, Vidora iPod Converter and iTunes Library Updater together using a batch file. The batch file is integrated into the Windows Shell as a context menu item when you right click DVR-MS files.

Since I don’t have the iPod connected to the Media Center I did some modifications to the batch file. Instead of using the iTunes Library Updater I copy the output file to a shared directory on the Media Center. Then on personal laptop (I have one for work and one or play) I can add the files to my iPod.

If you want a step by step by step guide on how to do this check out Tony’s article.