lilnoob, It may be an issue with your firmware. The firmware version 1.1 released in January has been giving people all sorts of playback issues. If you have version 1.1 firmware, I suggest downgrading your firmware. To do this, have a look at this link. http://www.ipodhacks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=813 Enjoy!!
I use a different method to those suggested in the link, and it is probably simpler, so i'll share it with your here.. If you have a [bold]PC[/bold], download v1.0 here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y44N4BER and restore your iPod using it. If you have a [bold]Mac[/bold], download v1.0 here http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Drivers/Apple-iPod-Updater-2005-11-17.shtml and restore your iPod using it. HowTo - Restore your iPod - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60983
you have to [bold]restore[/bold] your iPod with the v1.0 software, and then re-load your music/videos back onto your iPod.
These seem to be similar questions to mine, so I'll ask here first. I ripped a DVD using handbrake. It is now a mp4 file and sitting quietly on my desktop. When I try to drag it into iTunes, nothing happens, it doesn't show up. Also, when I try to play it using Quicktime, an error message pops up that reads "Quicktime does not recognize this file" or something to that extent. I don't even have a video iPod yet, to be honest, and was trying to be sure I could get DVD's onto my iTunes account before upgrading from my old iPod. Any idea why the file does not show up? I did try shortening the name with no success.
all i know is to get the .mp4 video to work correctly you have to do it to this setting on videora. MPEG-4/320 X 240/QB4 Stereo/ 96 kbps. maybe that is what you did wrong but i dont know. hope i could help.
hey i really could use help on this one, i have a video ipod and i have figured most of it out now, however i have trouble gettiong movies from limewire to play on my i pod. only the videos from dvds i have burnt work the videos from limewire are in mpeg4 format and everything they play perfectly on i tunes to on my i pod it shows a black screen for a few seconds than goes back to the menu. does anyone know what the problem is?
ninma - videos downloaded directly from limewire & such may not necessarily transfer straight to the iPod, regardless of whether they are in mp4 format or not. I suggest you have a look at the stickied guides on methods used to transcode videos into iPod format. Let me know how you get on.
