Importing video to iPod

Hey there, i really need some help! im trying to put some mp4 vids to my iPod bu i cant i tried converting,syncing, lots of other stuff also when i drag the vid to the iPod its wont appear there and when i convert it the video is all blank and white whille u could still hear the audio

I think the video converter build into itunes 9.1.1 is very buggy. I tried to convert video files within itunes as well and I had the same results. In fact, iTunes corrupted my Quicktime X preferences preventing QT X from playing any video files. I had to go into my "(home folder)/Library/Preference" folder and remove all the Quicktime preferences, any file that has "com.apple.quick..." and "QuickTime Preferences", then restart the computer to fix the problem. To get the file to m4v which is the only format I know of that the iphone/ipod can read, I had to convert the mp4 files using Export in Quicktime 7 Pro. I called applecare, and they informed me that iTunes video converter could be buggy.
Hope this helps...
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This is not true.
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