Getting videos and and movies onto my ipod

I have many videos and movies in a folder on my desktop, and I am having trouble getting them on my ipod. when I drag and drop the video in itunes it would say something like "this video will not work in ipod". I looked up the error message and it said I should try to let itunes convert the video to make it "ipod-ready". Except it said that I need to get the video into my itunes library, which I don't know how to(don't use itunes as my media player anyway). I know the ipod video has a narrow file format limit, limitong only to .mpg, .mov and a few others. But the videos are in mpg and its still not lettin me drag and drop. What do I do?

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