I'm lost in technology.

You see we have a DVD recorder and an iPod video and wanted to try and load things recorded from TV onto the iPod. Turns out we don't know how. And the more we try the more difficult things are.

Our DVD recorder offers two recording formats: VRO and VBO. VRO can only be transformed into iPod format by purchasing software (trial versions put huge watermarks and the quality is not so good, plus they take ages to convert very short clips).

VBO can be converted by our free and up until now very reliable and fast converter (Coyote) but given that VBO creates two files - one for sound and one for image - the converter makes that too, so we can't watch whatever it is because we have two totally separated files.

Has anyone 'explored this venue'? I hope so because we're going crazy here.

Thanks!