Converting Movie Trailers to work on iPod

I've downloaded a few movie trailers, and they will no load onto the iPod "they are not compatible with this iPod".
Purchased videos work fine.
The error sends you to a KBase article that has nothing to do with the iPod - it tells you how to watch videos in iTunes.
So, what format do the movie trailers need to be converted to in order to work?
Thanks

Does the Windows version of QT Pro have the "export to iPod" function? I want to make sure before I kick in the $30 for it, but if it does, I'll be on it. I use other software for VOB conversion, the PSPVIDEO9 guys have a freeware iPod conversion program out (windows only, sorry) that seems to work great (I assume, I haven't loaded a movie to the iPod yet, but it looks good in QT)

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