ITunes says "this movie cannot be played on an iPhone"

Hello everyone. I've been trying to rip and convert my DVDs into quicktime lately but iTunes has been giving me trouble. I ripped the original, uncompressed .mpg file off the DVD and loaded it into a bunch of different converter programs, but they all reduced the size of the video to 640x360 during the conversion from .mpg to .mp4, thus lowering the quality. After that I decided to try loading the .mpg into Adobe Premiere and setting it to the original size of the video, which in this case was 853x480. I then exported it to .mp4 using the h.264 codec and put it into iTunes. It now had the full quality and size that I wanted, but when I tried to sync my iPhone it gave me a message saying it wouldn't be copied because it isn't playable on an iPhone. So my question is: why are the videos i bought on iTunes that have a frame size of around 853x480 playable on my iPhone but the 853x480 videos i created myself unplayable?

From tech specs of phone about videos.
Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

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