How to Sync and Play iTunes Music Video DVD Movie on Palm Pre Centro Treo

SPalm holders can seamlessly sync iTunes to Palm Pre Centro Treo via the Media Sync Mode before iTunes upgraded to the latest version (8.2.1), unfortunately now Apple is striking back that: iTunes will never ever support any non-iPod digital media player.

Then is there any way to sync iTunes to Palm Pre Centro Treo other than stepping back and staying with the old version iTunes?

Sync iTunes to Palm Pre with one stand Syncer

There are third party commercial media sync tools, like DoubleTwist (partly free for Windows user) which can sync iTunes music video to Palm Pre, BlackBerry, PSP, iPod, iPhone etc; and The Missing Sync ($39.95 for Mac user) to sync iTunes music video to Palm Pre.

The Good: they do the syncing job in seamless way, even computer newbie can handle.
The Bad: they can only sync the dissociated music & video file from the computer hard drive, neither of them can sync protected content like DVD movie, let alone the iTunes DRM-protected .m4p music or .m4v video movie, or protected .wma music .wmv video downloaded from otheronline store.

The DIY way to sync iTunes to Palm Pre and convert iPod to Palm Pre

Things to know: iTunes offers AAC(DRM-protected .m4p & non-DRM .m4a) music and DRM-protected .m4v video movie; while Palm Pre Centro Treo supports playing MP3, RealAudio .ra music and .avi .wmv .asf, MPEG-1, .3g2, .3gp, .mpeg, .mpg .mov video.

Tools needed: iTunes, USB cable, SD card (if you have), DRM Removal Software (to remove DRM and convert media formats)

Step 1. Remove DRM and Convert Formats.
Download this DRM Removal, install and run it as what you do with the most application software.

Then go to the main window to "Add" or drag-drop source files. The "Settings" board offers various output setting function as output format, bit rate, frame rate, etc, you can customize the target files' profile at will.

After finishing the output setting, back to the main window, click "Start" to begin the conversion process. Duration depends on source files size.

Step 2. Sync the converted iTunes music video movie to Palm Pre.
Connect your phone to your computer with the USB cable, then Palm phone will show up as a USB mass storage device on the desktop => double click the icon, locate the converted media files from the desktop => drag and drop to corresponding music or video file of the SD card => when transferring done, disconnect the phone from computer.

How to convert DVD on Palm Pre Centro Treo

If you want to convert DVD movie to Palm Pre, this DVD to Palm Converter for Windows can help to crack DVD CSS protection, split DVD movie to clips, and convert them to Palm Pre compatible audio & video formats.

If you're a Mac-based user, this DVD to Palm Converter for Mac is an ideal choice.

The conversion process is the same easy and simple as illustrated above, here I just saved it.

Tips:

The DRM Removal and DVD Ripper software mentioned above can do even more jobs than converting all the popular media formats like M4P, M4B, M4V, WMV, ASF, WMA, MP4, M4A, AVI (Divx/Xvid), MOV, 3GP, 3G2, CD.dat, DVD.vob, h.264, HD(.m2ts; .tp; .trp; .ts), HD(.mp4; .wmv; .asf; .mpg; .vob; .mov; avi), DV, NSV, NUT, Real audio & video(.rm; .ra; .ram; .rmvb), FLV, FLAC, AIFF, SWF, MPG, MP3, AC3, OGG, APE, AAC, WAV, MKV, MKA, etc.

They support not only Palm phone, but also the other digital player as iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Zune, Xbox, Creative Zen, Archos, Iriver, Sansa, Blackberry, Samsung, Sonywalkman, Nokia, HTC, LG, Moto, Cowon, Pocket PC, etc

You might also like to check for even more "How-To" transfer the DRM protected music, video, movie to media devices like iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, Creative Zen, Archos, Sansa, Iriver, Samsung, Cowon, Sony Walkman, as well as mobile phones like HTC, Blackberry, Sony Erricsson, LG, Nokia, Motorola, etc.