5th Generation iPod doesn't play Movies

Hi all,
a friend of mine bought a 5th Generation iPod some weeks ago
and I'm going to buy one, too. But there's one little thing that makes me nervous...
A few days ago we connected the iPod to my PC an everything started - iTunes did it's work.....very cool!
Forehanded I converted some videos for the iPod Video and I we were happy, when iTunes started transfering them, too.
After the work was done, I disconnected the iPod and tried to play a music video at first - nice! It works!
After that I tried to run one of the five full movies,
but it didn't work. The iPod shows them in it's list,
but nothing happens, when I'm trying to play them. =(
I don't really understand....the Pod shows a black screen for a few seconds and returns to the menu then.
I hope someone is able to help.....and I'm sorry for my bad English.
Thanks.
bye,
darker

In order for the iPod to play videos, they must be in the correct format, which is .MP4, .M4v, .MOV. I recommend that you just stick the videos in iTunes, and then right click on the movie file, and click "Covert for iPod". This will ensure that everything is going to be in the correct format.
Hope that this helps,
Cory

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