MPG movies, can they play on an iPhone???

I have several movies that are in MPG format. I cannot load these onto my iPhone. Do they have to be in a different format? What formats actually will play on the iPhone. Is there a way to convert mpg files to a compatible format?

If you can load them into itunes, then you can highlight them and click on advanced at the top of itunes.
Then choose convert selection to ipod.

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Right ckick in itunes on the troublesome movie and on the summary page of Get Info it will tell you the type of HD.
I have this situation with my iPhone 4 but my wife has no issues with her iPhone 4s. For some strange reason she refuses to swap - Go figger.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5500
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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?

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