Slow movie sync

Does anyone know why a movie is taking so long to sync to my iPhone? I have Windows XP, 2.0 USB ports, 1.73GHz, 1G ram, etc., and the latest iTunes. Songs seem to sync normally, but I have one 900 MB movie that takes 1 hour 15 min to sync. The movie is an MPEG-4 file or .mp4 suffix and when I try the option for 'Convert Selection for iPod/iPhone', iTunes says the file is already in the correct format.

I don't convert the movies myself. My sister has actual mp4 files that she swaps in and out of her 80GB iPod with no problem and she transferred those files to my pc. And the movies themselves play fine.
Initially when I bought my phone, it took a long time to sync even without the movies (only 130 songs, 23 photos). No calendar or contacts. I called Apple tech support and he walked me thru uninstalling and reinstalling itunes. It synced the songs pretty fast after that. But the movie still took over an hour. I tried the whole process of uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes and I think I broke it again Music alone takes about a minute to sync each song. I think when the tech person had me try the sync, I was only syncing the same things that were already ON the phone, and that's why it was fast?

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Earlier, itunes hung and had to be forced down at activity monitor.
It couldn't see iPhone attached as well.
Earlier I converted short clips of Divx to .m4v / which are Mpeg-4.
Send them to iTunes, then it's needed to covert to iPhone.
That process seemed to go Ok, Sorta,,,, there was a beach ball involved at times.
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Maybe I should have selected one at a time, vs 6.
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I don't recall what the status was prior, if the box was checked or not.
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Philscbx wrote:
The box is unchecked at Sync Movies.
I don't recall what the status was prior, if the box was checked or not.
*Some how during the hung process with iTunes, the box showed up unchecked when iTunes was restarted.*
But if you now try to check the box,
I don't know if I want to let it do what it intends to.
It sounds too intense.
This is the warning you get/ *And you have to agree or no more movies*
Are you sure you want to sync movies?
All existing songs, movies and Tv shows on the iPhone will be removed and replaced with movies from your iTune library.
The iPhone still has the video's inplace from before, and They were not removed during a current sync even though the movie sync box was unchecked.
* I gave up waiting for any advice, So I grabbed the evil beast by the horns, and let it do what it warned about.
I was now able to check the MOVIE SYNC box, and now able to scroll through the movie list that was locked out and select the converted to iPhone movies I wanted.
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So I'll have to redo that part.
+*This is totally ridiculous to wipe out 500 tunes.*+
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I have a bunch of videos on my ipod but just recently all the movies sort themselves in music instead of movies(on my ipod). when i sync a new movie it sorts itself under movies.
my question is: how do i get all my movies to show up under movies.;
and yes i tried changing the media kind to movie. but that dosnt fix the problem.any help is awesome!

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