Convertion time with quick time pro

I have a couple of snowboarding films that I have tried to convert to play on my ipod video. The problem is that one of the videos, about 300 megs took about 30 hours to convert and when played on my Ipod has no sound. I am trying to convert another one and its at 34% 16 hours in. Is there any way that this process can be expidited with either a change in settings for quicktime pro or use of another program?
HELP?

The problem is that one of the videos, about 300 megs took about 30 hours to convert and when played on my Ipod has no sound.
With regard to the "no sound" problem, as has been pointed out numerous times already, the QT Pro application is A/V multi-track based. That is, it is designed to work with movies in which there are separate audio and separate video streams of data. If you check, you will like find that your source movie is probably some form of "muxed" (MPEG1, MPEG2, VOB, some AVI, AVI MJPEG, etc) format in which bocks of audio and video are intersperced in a single stream of data. (I guess another way of saying this is to describe QT and QT-like applications as "frame" based while muxed files are "packet" based for the purpose of sychronizing audio and video information.) When converting muxed file types it is best to use an MPEG based application like Videora iPod Converter (free) or Video Vault to Apple iPod Converter ($$) Windows only applications.
Is there any way that this process can be expidited with either a change in settings for quicktime pro or use of another program?
Yes, both alternatives are viable. If you are using the dedicated QT Pro "Movie to iPod (320x240" export option, you can halve you time by merely switching to the ""Movie to MPEG4" QT Pro export option and using the Baseline H.264 codec in the single pass mode. Further, if you switch to the MPEG4 code, you can cut the single pass H.264 conversion times in half (or a quarter in single pass MPEG4).
However, I cannot urge you stronly enough to have more than a signle work flow for these conversions. Different converters use different strategies and sooner or later you are bound to come across a movie whose content simply refuses to convert using one program or another. Sometimes the problem can be fixed by simply modifying your "normal" settings. At other times it is simplier to just "switch" to another program with a "tighter" conversion strategy or that employs a faster "response" algoithm.
Hope this helps...
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