Creating Video for iPod

Followed the steps from the tutorial - exporting a mpeg video to "Movie to iPod (320x240)" and created a m4v video. Problem is two fold, first it has no sound, secondly I dragged the new video into the iTunes library and it shows up there and perform the update but the iPod does not display Videos in the main menu, am I missing something? Use is on a iPod+hp 30GB product #PS492AA

QT does not support the export of sound from mpeg-1 or mpeg-2 video files: QT Mpeg Limitations
You can overcome this limitation by using this freeware Windows program to convert the mpeg-1 to uncompressed avi format. QT will be able to read that format and will export both sound and video from it. Only problem may be that it creates very large files. That is not an issue for short things like music videos but any mpeg over a few minutes may swamp your hard drive.
If length/file size is not a problem, try it. VirtualDub
Open the mpeg-1 in VDub, go to the File menu and use Save As Avi. It will by default use uncompressed avi sound and video.
I can't help you with the iPod main menu issue. Maybe someone elso will contribute a solution.

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Meissie,
Unfortunately, you're in the wrong forum.
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Last post before I leave things alone for a while.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes and Quicktime and iTunes no longer chews up lots of CPU when trying to convert one particular Quicktime created file.
I've also recreated each file again from the same source, the AVI encoded as DV-PAL with screen res of 720x576. I created a series of test cases to try to pin the problem down and I think the best exposition is the following -
The problem
An MPEG4 file exported from Quicktime loads and plays in iTunes, plays on AppleTV and can be converted for iPod.
An almost identical MPEG4 file created by MEGUI using the x264 encoder, latest build 1649, and all the same settings as Quicktime loads and plays in iTunes, plays on AppleTV but when converted for iPod produces a file with audio but the video is "white". Looking at the file size, less than 2mb, it is pretty obvious that the video stream is simply not there.
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Quicktime Movie Inspector reports the screen resolution of the file it exported as 720x540 while for the MEGUI created file it reports a very odd 787x576. Note that Windows Media Player and YAMB (MP4Box utility) both report this same file as 720x576 which is what I would expect as MEGUI did not resize the video. As an aside, WMP and YAMB also report the Quicktime created file as 720x540 so they agree with Quicktime on that score at least.
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Why does Quicktime report an incorrect screen resolution, and is this contributing to the conversion problem in iTunes?
My understanding is that MPEG4 uses 16x16 macroblocks and so the dimensions of anything to be encoded must be in multiples of 16 and 787 is not a multiple of 16.
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Data Size: 31.32 MB
Data Rate: 2.39 mbits/sec
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Format: H.264, 787x576, Millions
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