I noticed alot of people are having issues with converting videos for their new 5th generation iPods using Videora converter.

Here is what I noticed.. the frame rate will mess you up hardcore. I spent the last hour trying to figure out why some videos were converting properly and some weren’t. Videora is set by default to encode at the “input” framerate, which isn’t always what you want, your iPod is looking for 29.97 (NTSC) input and won’t deal with others. So go into the Videora setup and make your own profile but change the Framerate to 29.97 and then save this profile. Click thumbnail for a picture of the setting.

Note: It appears that the iPod doesn’t like to play long H.264 encoded movies, like I ripped Fight Club from DVD and encoded it in both H.264 in 348kbps and 768kbps then MPEG-4/xvid in 512kbps and it would only play the MPEG-4/xvid file but would copy all three files to the iPod, it would attempt to play the H.264 encoded files but would fail and drop you back to the previous menu, no error codes.

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