My 5th Gen 60gb iPod freezes when watching video, help?

I recently bought my first iPod and have downloaded lots of music and photos. I recently bought the Xilisoft platinum converting programme and converted a couple of films to MPEG 4 and then on to the ipod. Now after sometimes as little as 30 seconds the picture freezes then after 5 seconds, the film continues without sound. I have tried this on all my videos on my ipod and they are all the same. Please can someone help me as it is very frustrating, thanks alot!!!!

You and a million other people. The problem is with firmware 1.1. To solve the problem you need to downgrade to firmware 1.0. You can look through the discussions where it's been covered ad nauseam.
What I did to downgrade mine:
Here's what needs to be done for downgrading to firmware 1.0 without losing any data on your iPod:
-Connect your iPod to your computer, ensure it's updated via iTunes, then disconnect it from the PC and exit iTunes
-If you don’t have the original firmware 1.0, download iPodSetup 2005-11-17 here:
http://appldnld.m7z.net/content.info.apple.com/iPod/ww/win/061-2225.20051128.PDW nw/iPodSetup.exe
- Then download iPodWizard here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=153441
(download the “Release”, the top link of the two)
- Uninstall iPod for Windows 2006-1-10 if it was previously installed on your PC and reboot.
- Install iPodSetup 2005-11-17
-Connect your iPod to the PC, make sure iTunes is not running
-Launch iPodWizard.
-In the top left, click "Open Updater"
-Locate the iPod Updater.exe located in a sub-folder where you just installed iPodSetup 2005-11-17
-In the "Firmware:" drop down menu, select "5th Generation iPod (v.13.6.0)"
-Click "Load" just to the right of the drop down menu
-In the iPodWizard Essentials box on the right, it should say "Found 1 iPod drives:"
-Click "Downgrade Firmware". I'ts very quick.
-Click “Downgrade Firmware” once more. It needs to be done twice.
-Close the iPodWizard
-Again, make sure iTunes is not running
-From your Start menu, run iPod Updater 2005-11-17 and click "Update", not "Restore"
-Once the update is completed (it takes a few minutes), exit the iPod Updater and run it again to view the new firmware number. It should read:
"Software Version: 1.0 (up to date)"
-Launch iTunes. A pop up window will ask you if you want to download the new software version 1.1. Tick the box "Do not ask me again" and click "CANCEL"

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