Just Black movies in iDVD playback

Hello.
I bought myself a Casio Exilim S770 and Import the mpeg4 avi files to idvd. But there I just see some black movies but can hear the original sound. In QT the playback runs normal. Also in VLC. Another strange thing is, that if i copy some of these files on my desktop I couldnt see there a Snapshot-Thoumbnail as an Icon from the video but a white square-icon with some black letters on it, which i couldn't read. Can you help me?

mpg-4 files with multiplexed audio don't work well (or at all) in QuickTime and iDVD.
I suggest you use VisualHub ( http://www.techspansion.com/ ) to convert them to DV video format. That's what I do with MY 'problem' mpg-4 AVI files.
It has a free trial mode so you can verify it does what you need.
F Shippey

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