File Conversions in Quicktime Pro

can quicktime pro convert flv files to movie files that i can play on my ipod? ex. i want to take youtube videos and convert the files so they can play on my ipod, if quicktime cant do it is there something that can?
thank you

And to dbsneddon. The quality of sync in FLV is truly horrible. MPEG Streamclip will make equally out of sync FLV to QT movies as QT will, even Elgato Turbo.264 (which uses a hardware encoder to H264) will lose sync. If it MUST be in sync you may need to strip the audio out and then place it back in sync using QT Pro (and hope the opverall timing is OK and it is just out of sync from the beginning).
I do not think that sync was a huge part of the spec when whoever built it got to work. You may notice that the FLV original loses sync but teh conversion really makes it a lot worse.

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