Error -2048 and beyond...

Hello everybody,
I've got a very simple question, and I hope the Apple employees will be paying the required attention and thought to the question I'm about the ask:
Why do we, the iPod movie customers, have to struggle so much on finding the right way to convert common movie files (.avi, .mpeg, .mov) to the only two formats that iPod actually supports (MP4 and M4U)?
Just a suggestion - if your product only supports one or two uncommon formats, why not make it easier on the consumer and give him the software which does the basic operation of converting the most common formats to the one or two being supported by iPod.
Why letting the consumer spend another $25-30 on the software on top of what he spent on the product itself?
If anybody here can enlighten me with some new updates regarding the conversion softwares, please do...

"Why do we, the iPod movie customers, have to struggle so much on finding the right way to convert common movie files (.avi, .mpeg, .mov) to the only two formats that iPod actually supports (MP4 and M4U)?"
Nothing common about the .AVI container. Thousands of combinations of audio and video codecs. Use third party convertors on that format for better success in your export.
General rule is that it must first play in the QuickTime Player before it can be exported.
No one from Apple will respond in these Discussions pages. These pages are "peer to peer".
The iPod supports dozens of formats as long as they meet the "specs" used on your particular device.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
Open a MPEG 1 file and it will "play" with QuickTime. The "Pro" upgrade can't (never did) export any audio from these muxed track formats. Use third party software to convert your MPEG-1 files.
MPEG-2 (format of most DVD's) also requires third party software help. QuickTime doesn't "play" DVD's.
MPEG Streamclip (free) can convert many of these files to QT formats that can be used on your iPod. It even has an MPEG-4 "preset" export feature that is foolproof.
Non commercial (not "Hollywood") DVD's can be converted via the Apple MPEG-2 Playback Component and the tool mentioned above.
iTunes also includes a "video" to iPod conversion feature. Since iTunes is free you may not have needed to spend any money on your "conversions". Just drag your video to iTunes and set your preferences for the proper conversion format.

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Thanks for your response. I have inserted commentary below:
I am having
considerable difficulty in getting any of my
DVD/movie files greater than 2GB to upload into my
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VOB -- or associated with Fat-32 file system. I have
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