The 5th Generation iPod supports MPEG-4 video playback.
iTunes software can convert video files supported by Apple QuickTime, which is quite limited.
| 3G2(3GPP2 Mobile Video) | Tutorial: 3G2 to iPod |
| 3GP(3GP Mobile Video) | Tutorial: 3GP to iPod |
| AAC(Advanced Audio Coding) | Tutorial: AAC to iPod |
| AC3(Dolby Digital AC-3 Audio) | Tutorial: AC3 to iPod |
| AIF(AIFF/AIFC Apple Audio) | Tutorial: AIF to iPod |
| ALAC(Apple Lossless) | Tutorial: ALAC to iPod |
| AMR(Adaptive Multi-Rate) | Tutorial: AMR to iPod |
| APE(Monkey Audio) | Tutorial: APE to iPod |
| ASF(Advanced Streaming Format) | Tutorial: ASF to iPod |
| AU(UNIX Audio) | Tutorial: AU to iPod |
| AVI(Audio Video Interleaved) | Tutorial: AVI to iPod |
| CDA(Audio CD Track) | Tutorial: CDA to iPod |
| DIVX(DivX Video) | Tutorial: DIVX to iPod |
| DTS(Digital Theater System) | Tutorial: DTS to iPod |
| DV(Digital Video Cassette) | Tutorial: DV to iPod |
| DVD(Digital Versatile Disk) | Tutorial: DVD to iPod |
| DVR-MS(Microsoft Digital Video Recordin) | Tutorial: DVR-MS to iPod |
| EVOB(HD-DVD and BlueRay Enhanced VOB) | Tutorial: EVOB to iPod |
| FLAC(Free Lossless Audio Codec) | Tutorial: FLAC to iPod |
| FLV(Flash Video) | Tutorial: FLV to iPod |
| GIF(Animated GIF) | Tutorial: GIF to iPod |
| HDTV(High Definition Video) | Tutorial: HDTV to iPod |
| M4A(MPEG-4 Audio) | Tutorial: M4A to iPod |
| MKV(Matroska Video) | Tutorial: MKV to iPod |
| MOV(QuickTime Movie) | Tutorial: MOV to iPod |
| MP3(MPEG Layer-3) | Tutorial: MP3 to iPod |
| MP4/M4V(MPEG-4 Video) | Tutorial: MP4/M4V to iPod |
| MPA(MPEG Audio) | Tutorial: MPA to iPod |
| MPC(Musepack) | Tutorial: MPC to iPod |
| MPEG-1(MPEG-1 Video) | Tutorial: MPEG-1 to iPod |
| MPEG-2(MPEG-2 Video) | Tutorial: MPEG-2 to iPod |
| NUV(MythTV) | Tutorial: NUV to iPod |
| OFR(OptimFROG Audio) | Tutorial: OFR to iPod |
| OGG(OGG Vorbis Audio) | Tutorial: OGG to iPod |
| OGM(OGG Media) | Tutorial: OGM to iPod |
| PVA(Hauppauge Video Recording) | Tutorial: PVA to iPod |
| RA(RealAudio) | Tutorial: RA to iPod |
| RM(RealMedia) | Tutorial: RM to iPod |
| SD2(Sound Designer 2) | Tutorial: SD2 to iPod |
| SHN(Shorten Audio) | Tutorial: SHN to iPod |
| SND(Unix Sound) | Tutorial: SND to iPod |
| SVCD(Super VCD) | Tutorial: SVCD to iPod |
| TTA(The True Audio codec) | Tutorial: TTA to iPod |
| VCD(VideoCD 2.0) | Tutorial: VCD to iPod |
| VOB(DVD Media File) | Tutorial: VOB to iPod |
| VRO(DVD-Recording) | Tutorial: VRO to iPod |
| WAV(Waveform) | Tutorial: WAV to iPod |
| WMA(Windows Media Audio) | Tutorial: WMA to iPod |
| WMV(Windows Media Video) | Tutorial: WMV to iPod |
| WV(WavPack) | Tutorial: WV to iPod |
| XVID(XVID Video) | Tutorial: XVID to iPod |