Upgrade/update system gtkpod now suddenly won't recognise .mp4

Hi all,
I've been using Arch for a few months now(6 - 8months) and have managed between the forum and the wiki to search and find all the information I needed.
However there does not seem to be any info on this....
Less than a week ago I could copy .mp4 files to my Ipod 5g using gtkpod with no problem, I ran "sudo pacman -Syu" 2 days ago(I am in the habit of running it ever 2 to 3 days) and this morning went to copy some video files onto my Ipod... and... I get this error :
File type of /home/jj/Desktop/Tutorials/Dock_Murdock_Slap_Funk_Bass.mp4 is not recognised.
I can't seem to find any information here on the Arch site, or even a google search, its like no one has had this problem. I admit I'm a little new to Arch still, I'm a web-programmer and a musician, I'm not to much into system admin(yet). The above error message is popped up by gtkpod when I tell it to add the .mp4 file, is there a log file that I can get a more detailed error message from?
I checked and I have lib libmp4v2 installed as well as faac and faad2. The video files play fine in VLC, I used ffmpeg to convert them from .flv to .mp4, and after getting the error message I tried copying a video file that I had previously copied to the Ipod(which is in fact still on the Ipod under a different name, and I can't watch it fine) ad still no luck.
Can anyone at least point me in the right direction here? I really need to get these videos on here.
Thanks!

Spider.007 wrote:Nothing wrong with running pacman-Syu every 2-3 days, it will keep you up-to-date which might cause you to experience bugs in software early. If you need a quick-fix, have a look at Downgrading Packages. For a long-time fix, you will need to find out why gtkpod no longer recognizes the file you want to add, and probably report it upstream
Thank you very much Spider, downgrading worked for now. I was damn near in tears over this, not a good day for things to mess up(what with quitting smoking etc...). From what I can tell, the newest version of gtkpod(at least on my system) is not being installed with the optional dependency "libmp4v2" ... the libmp4v2 library is installed on my system but gtkpod does not seem to be linking against it... and I can't find any information on installing a package with optional dependencies.... I don't know, for now it works, I'll have to see about building my own package maybe?

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