However, there is a solution that works on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad that allows you to watch many different types of videos (wmv, etc.) with on-the-fly transcoding.
I tried TVersity, but you need to pay for it if you want support for iPhones.
I found a free program called Air Video that allows me to watch these incompatible videos on my iPod, streamed over the network. This program works for both Windows and Mac, which is great. What this program does is it converts the videos on-the-fly while it is streaming them to you. You don’t have to wait for videos to convert completely before watching them, you can actually start watching them almost instantly.
Air Video will work over a WiFi network, and can also stream through the Internet.
You will also need an app on your device to receive the videos. There are two versions of this app, a free version (FREE – Linky) and a paid version ($2.99 – Linky). They are almost the same, except that the free version will just limit the number of items in each folder. Note that the PC version is free, and has no limitations.
Here is a basic explanation of how to set it up (If you have any questions, just leave a comment):
1. Install Air Video on the PC
2. Open the program, and add the folders/playlists that you want to add.
3. Install Air Video on your device.
4. Open the app, tap the + icon in the top left corner
5. Under “Computers on local network”, you should see your PC, tap on it to add it.
6. You can now browse through its folders and watch your videos.
There is more information on the Air Video website, at the link above. That wraps it up for this post, thanks for reading!