Videos freeze my ipod

i just bought a new 5th generation video ipod. everything in my iTunes library transferred just fine. all the music plays, all the music videos play, but, when i try to play a tv show, it either freezes immediately or a few seconds into the video. when i look at the "Description" column in iTunes, all the tv shows have an "i" inside a grey circle on the far right side. i can't find any error message information in the HELP file, so i'm stuck. i have been through the 4 R's or 5 R's or whatever it is several times. what now?

i'm looking at the TV Shows on iTunes. they are not exclamation points, they're "i's". they may have been there all along. the TV Shows will play fine on my computer.
everything on my ipod looks fine until i try to play the TV Show. it gets to the first frame and freezes. nothing works until i reset. the strange thing is that music videos play just fine.

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can somebody please help me? my iPod was working fine before but everytime I try to play a video, it randomly freezes at a random time and my iPod just resets by itself. i've tried everything from downgrading the firmware, restoring, using different USB cables, you name it! I have spent approximately 7 hours trying to solve this problem and I am having no lucks whatsoever. If someone has a solution please post some advice before I get a hammer and break this iPod.

Well, My problem was also started by the updater. Then XP would freeze and restart then fail to completely restart until I disconnected the ipod. This would happen ever time I connected the ipod to the computer via firewire or usb 2.0 ports. I finally tried to hook up the ipod to a usb 1.0 port and the computer worked fine. I then quickly used the updater again on my ipod and when I was done I used add/remove programs and removed the updater. Since then computer and ipod both work fine.
So, with out knowing all your specific details... try hooking your ipod up to different usb ports and try the firewire hook up to see if that makes a difference. You can look through these posts and find a lot of people with this problem and I sure what worked for me may not help you.

Video freezes when playing after ipod updating

My 60GB ipod video freezes up after a few minutes of playing video. It was operating fine until I installed the latest IPOD updater software "2006-01-10". I have tried reseting the ipod, but it makes no difference. When the freeze occurs, I found that returning back to the main menu is the only way to get the video to return to playing. Otherwise, I tried fast forward and it sometimes plays, but without sound.
This is a new IPOD, so I can return it today for a full refund from the apple store.
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My 60GB ipod video freezes up after a few minutes of
playing video.
The only way to fix it is to go back to the previous updater. You'll lose everything on your iPod but you can sync again afterwards.
1) Uninstall the 1.1 updater from your computer.
2) Install the 1.0 updater onto your computer. It's on the CD that came with your iPod.
3) Plug in your iPod.
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5) Select 'restore'.
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i have a few movies on my ipod, real ones that are like 2 hours long. some times they play just fine but other times the freeze about every 30 seconds for about 2 seconds and when i starts playing again there is no sound. i found that if i rewind the movie back to a place where it was before it froze then it will work again but 30 seconds later it will freeze. does any one else have this problem? its very annyoing and i would love a solution.
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Hi.
have you updated with ipod updater 3-23-06?
I've heard that the problem where video play stops and then audio quits was resolved at least for some people with this update.
when the ipod makes independent noise that is usually the harddrive working. sometimes after a while of video playback the ipod gets warm and it won't respond to sleep commands until it cools off and the harddrive stops running. then you can turn it off.
when that happens have you tried resetting? (holding down menu and select buttons until apple screen comes on). I think that might help it respond faster.
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i have a 60gb 5 generation ipod! and when i updated to the evrsion, the large videos freeze at 30 seconds! i restore the older updated and now works fine! anyway, my ipod is on warranty and i return the ipod ton the service centre for repair or send me one new!
my question is.... i do well? i mean, will send my ipod to apple and send me one new, or mine reapired make my ipod go worst than now? :-s!

Apple won't send you a new iPod since (as you said in your post), the iPod now works fine.
It seems you've fallen victim to the 'bug' that afflicts some 60GB iPods after updating to software version 1.1. The cure, as reported here many times on the boards, is to revert to version 1.0 (as you have done), and await a newer updater that contains a fix.
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Everytime I want to play video on my Ipod I got to play it and it freezes on the first frame.No sound or anything. i have to reset it. i just downloaded version 1.1.1 on it but it didnt change anything.I only upgraded though, i didnt restore it. Do i have to restore the whole thing or what? Any Suggestions?

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http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/
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Ok, that's what I expected.
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As it turns out, mine just needed about ten minutes to sit there and think after I plugged the iPod in. Maybe yours is the same way. It's not acceptable, but you can get to your iPod if you have the patience.
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i cant play my newest coverted video on my ipod.
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anyone please advise.

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I've got a 5G 30GB ipod that worked fine until about the time I got a new computer (both old and new are Windows XP). Transferred all old library items fine to new computer. All music plays fine but newly purchased videos freeze after a few seconds and go to black then after a couple of minutes it goes back to the previous menu screen. Old videos and TV programs (purchased before the switch in computers) still play fine. Newly added videos will play fine on my computer but not on my ipod. I've got latest software updates and have done all suggested R's but problem is still there. By the way ... all videos and TV programs were purchased through iTunes (protected MPEG4), not converted and the new computer has been authorized. Any suggestions?? (Not sure if this has to do with the new computer or just a coincidence in timing.)
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I've been reading a lot of notice boards and i'm just getting more and more confused!
I have just bought a 60GB video Ipod and am experiencing the common video freeze problem. Ok so i restore the Ipod back to Version 1.0 and videos dont freeze, problem solved?
No with my new iPod i also bought the radio remote. Now when i plug it in i have no radio function.
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I downloaded a couple videos off the itunes store. They went into the ipod just fine. When I went to play one of them it was playing beautifuly. All of a sudden the picture would freeze but the music will continue. Then the picture will go a couple more seconds then stop again. Keeps doing that. I thought well I'll try the other video. It does the samething. I tried restarting it, rebooting it, its fully charged. I dont get it! Why is it doing that?? Its a 30GB if that helps any.

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Hi,
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