3g nano and video podcasts

when i play some video podcasts on the nano they just have a black screen witht he audio running in the background. Iv played them all on the pc and work so whats the problem
any solutions would be greatly appreciated
thanks

I had this exact problem on my iPod nano 3g and have cracked it. I run an IBM thinkpad with Windows XP and currently iTunes 7.4.3.1
Here was the problem: Characters in the file name. Mine had [2007] and a - hyphen or minus sign. I'm not sure which caused the problem, but just going into "get info" for the movie and ReNaming the file to movie13 or whatever solved the problem. Then I got video and audio and didn't do ANY other conversion of the file to make it work.
Simple but true. Apple should sort this out, I thought I had a codec or conversion problem and had tried a zillion type of file conversion programs from .avi to .mp4
Best wishes to all iPod nano owners.

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