MPG, which stands for Audio Video Interleave, is a Container format used by Microsoft’s Video for Windows multimedia framework. It is widely used by consumers and even supported by some standalone DVD players. If you attempt to import your MPG files to iTunes (iTunes 12.1), and possibly sync them to your iDevices later, you are not going to get what you want. This is due to iTunes’ incompatibility with MPG files.
iTunes supports video formats such as MOV, MP4 and M4V. In order to put MPG to iTunes for playback on iPad iPod iPhone, we need a MPG to iTunes converter to help us do this task. Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac, is actually an easy-to-use but powerful Video to iTunes converter for Mac, which comes with super high conversion speed and keep the output files in good quality simultaneously.
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It not only can convert MPG to iTunes-friendly format, but also can convert any other video formats including MP4, MKV, FLV, RMVB, VOB, WMV, etc. The following step by step guide will show you how to convert MPG to iTunes on Mac (OS X Yosemite, Mavericks included) for playback on iPod, iPhone or iPad using MPG to iTunes Converter. Note: If you are a Windows user, get the Windows version here which supports H.265/HEVC decoding/encoding.
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Converting and adding MPG to iTunes library on Mac
Step 1. Import source videos
Install and run this Mac Video Converter for iTunes, add the MPG videos which you want to convert by directly dragging them to the main window of this program. Another way to import files can be done with clicking the Add vIDEO button.
Step 2. Select iTunes supported format
Since iTunes supports MP4, M4V and MOV formats, you can click Format bar and choose any of the three from Common Video as the output file format. If you want to import MPG to iTunes for playing on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, etc., you can also directly select a format from decent device preset like iPad.
Tip- Video/Audio parameter settings:
If you need, you can click Settings to set the video parameters like bit rate, resolution, frame rate, etc. Remember the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.
Step 3. Start converting videos to iTunes
When all settings are done, simply click the Convert button to begin the conversion from MPG to iTunes format. When the conversion is finished, you can import and play your convertedvideos on iTunes or transfer them to iPhone, iPad via iTunes with ease.
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