Potential Fix to 1.1 60GB Video iPod issue

Question

I have been looking at ways to resolve this issue, and looking at other sites have come up with something that does work for me. Just want to throw it out there to see if it works for others as well.
The issue with the video playing and then continuing without sound seems related to how the converting programs put together the final mix of audio and sound, otherwise known as muxing.
When I ran my MP4 files through Yamb, a MP4Box GUI, files that did not work after about 20 seconds now play completely through without issue. It only takes about 2 minutes per movie to do this, although I have only been able to resolve issues with MP4 files and not h.264 files with the .m4v extention (Program doesn't seem to MUX the m4v files).
The simple instructions, find and install YAMB. . . Can be found with a search, current version is 1.5.
1. Run YAMB
2. On the “Mux” tab, add the old MP4 file in the “Audio & Video” section
3. Leave all other fields blank except the Output field
4. Leave the “Output” filename as the default or change the location and file name to whatever suits you
5. Click the “Mux” button. The progress bar will probably loop through 3-4 times, just wait for the log message “Muxing finished completely”. It shouldn’t take more than a couple minutes.
Please post regarding this if you do try this. I would like to know if this works for everyone. I use Videora, so other converters may or may not work. If you figure out how to accomplish the same thing with h.264 encoded files, please let me know as I have a few of these as well that are preventing me from staying at version 1.1 of the software.

Answer 1

Jonathan, what version of the %G ipod you have? the 30GB version or the 60GB version. Most of the problems reported with video after the 1.1 upgrade are related to 60GB ipod. There is an extensive thread on this issue on the ilounge forums:
http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=143446&highlight=videofirmware1.1
Here is a summary of their findings:
This problem only seems to affect the 5G 60Gb iPod
There have been no reports of this problem occurring on the 5G 30Gb iPod
The problem does not occur with content purchased from iTunes
The problem does not occur with content encoded with QuickTime and/or iTunes.
The problem only seems to occur with large video files (in excess of 100Mb)
The problem seems to occur most frequently with content encoded with Videora on PC, although other applications have shown this problem as well.
There have been few to no reports of this problem occurring for Mac users encoding with Handbrake.
Most of the users on the Windows platform use a combination of DVD Decrypter / videora, on the basis that both tools are free and they work. I, for example have a 30 GB ipod with firmware 1.1 I just DVd Decrypter and videora extensively to rip and convert my DVD's and put them on my ipod (R30, Band of Brothers, Serenity to name a few). I have not experienced any of this problems. Then again, I have a 30 GB ipod, and based on the experience form other users, I should not have a problem (and I don't have any).
another interesting point is that there has been cases of Mac users having problems with video encoded using handbrake. The common denominator here is the 1.1 upgrade.
The question should be then: what changed on the 60GB ipod after the 1.1 upgrade that is making viewing large video files encoded with 3rd party tools an impossible endeavor, rather than saying that Videora is the culprit here.
I agree though, that if you set the profiles wrong in videora (or in any other 3rd party tools for that matter) you will get bad results. The fact is though that the videos were working on those devices (60GB ipod) before the upgrade, so definitely something changed.