Move videos off of MCE and onto your iPod

This may be a dangerous thing to say, but I am intrigued by Windows XP Media Center. Sure, Front Row is nice (and I'll have more thoughts about it in the coming days), and it is obviously Apple's first steps in to the media center area, but Microsoft has a product shipping. It is true that it might be a little complicated to use, and has remotes that would choke a horse,  ahh but the things that it can do.

The one thing that MCE (as the cool people call it) can't do natively is transform all that rich video goodness that you have stored on your harddrive into videos viewable on your brand new iPod (now with video!). Luckily, Engadget has a savvy PC user that would not sleep until he got all of his video onto his iPod. Dave Zatz was even nice enough to write a tutorial to help you do this amazing feat yourself.

The tutorial uses some Windows only software, but since this is a tutorial about transferring videos onto your iPod from a MCE it is forgivable. Go check out the post if you have any interest in MCE, and if you don't pretend that this post never happened.