Encoding H.264 @ 640 x 480 for iPod with Avidemux?

Hi All,
I'm new to this forum, so please be gentle!
QuickTime/iTunes don't support XviD decoding on Windows, meaning I need to use a third-party tool for encoding my XviD videos to iPod. I am hoping that somebody on this forum has experience with H.264 iPod encodes to contribute towards getting mine working.
I've been using Avidemux 2.5.1 on Windows XP SP3 for other work very successfully and on paper it certainly seems capable of creating 640x480 H.264 encodes for my iPod.
The iPod does play 640x480 MPEG-4 ASP (XviD) and 320x240 MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encodes, both made by Avidemux. It also plays sample Apple files converted to 640x480 H.264 by iTunes (I've checked their format).
However, for the life of me I haven't been able to create a compliant 640x480 H.264 encode with Avidemux. No matter what options I've turned off and/or tuned down and no matter how low I've taken the bitrate, no 640x480 H.264 encode has worked so far with Avidemux.
My iPod's specs are at http://support.apple.com/kb/SP26 and I suspect that the "Low-Complexity" Baseline Profile is at the heart of my problems (potentially also the AAC-LC audio, although I guess then my other successful encodes with Avidemux/AAC wouldn't have worked either?). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264 only mentions a Constrained Baseline Profile, and I'm not sure whether that's the same thing as the "Low-Complexity" mentioned in the above iPod spec.
Has anybody succeeded in making iPod-compliant 640x480 H.264 encodes with Avidemux, and if so, may I please have the X264 encoder settings for Avidemux 2.5.1 from you?
Many thanks,
Francois

I'd like to report that our problem has been solved! What I had not seen before was the setting in QT to use the "Baseline" setting. That made all the difference.
For others, the setting can only be found by doing the following:
Use the Movie to MPEG-4 setting
File format: MP4
Video format: H.264
This will give a "Video Option" button. Change to "Baseline"
That's the key. After that, any settings can be used, such as data rate, frame rate, etc.
Here's what I now use:
(Under the Video Options button) Restrict Profile to Baseline
Encoding mode: Best quality (multi-pass)
Video format: H.264
Data rate: 75 kbps
Optimized for download
Image size 320x240 QVGA
Frame Rate: 15fps
Key frame automatic
Audio: AAC-LC
Data rate: 48
Channels: Mono
Output Sample rate: 44.100
Encoding Quality: Best
I want to thank all those who gave us input both here and in other discussions!

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