Videos showing on iTunes but NOT iPod

[EAAdam]

Hi All, WIth the new videora ipod converter 4, i can convert my dvds to videos, watch them on iTunes, but they will not upload to my iPod. Any suggestions?
When I go to "Get Info" for the video on iTunes, it shows a different message than my videos that actually work properly:
Encoded with: Lavf51.19.0
Could this be the problem?
Cheers, E
:confused:

[Wgrae]

A "senior member" named io_troll posted the following solution to the problem you described back in 2007. I've tried it - at least as far as editing the profile is concerned - and it works.

I know this is an old post, but I just spent a couple of days wrestling with exactly the same problem and finally sorted out the cause, so for the sake of others following this thread, here's what I found: if you see the "encoded with "Lavf51.1x.x" line in the iTunes "Get Info" summary box, it tells you that final output file from Videora was muxed by ffmpeg in a format that does not include the Apple UUID "atom". That "atom" is a small flag in the MP4 file that is required for iTunes to consider the file compatible with 5G and earlier iPods. But newer iPods, like iPhones and iTouch don't need that atom, so the latest versions of Videora only add it for some profiles; it is triggered by selecting the "5G VGA UUID" box on the "Advanced 1" tab of the profile settings. That causes the addition of a final muxing step (which increases overall processing time slightly) using a modified version of MP4Box, called nicmp4box.exe, to do the final muxing of the file and add the Apple UUID atom. In my case, I am encoding for both an iPhone and a "5.5G" iPod (80 GB iPod Video vintage late 2006), and without understanding all of the preceding I ran about 30 movies through Videora 3.05 with an iPhone profile. iTunes put them on the iPhone without trouble, but wouldn't put any of them on the iPod. I had a bunch of earlier files created with I think version 2.55 of Videora with what I thought were exactly the same settings, eg. 480x320 size and 768 kpbs that worked fine on both iPhone and iPod. The only real difference I found was that Lav51 encoder flag that was present on the newer files. (Also there were some subtle differences in other container info shown by GSpot) and that eventually led to the solution. I was able to fix all of those files without re-encoding them by simply remuxing with nicmp4box (which is in the Videora tools folder). I used a command line: nicmp4box -add input.mp4 output.mp4, and in less than a minute per file the iPhone files were remuxed into a format that was compatible with the 5G iPod.

I wasn't able to get the command line and nicmp4box program to work - but that is probably a function of my use of spaces in the file names and my laziness in not looking up the correct DOS names of those files.

[EAAdam]

Dear Wgrae,
You're a genius...IT WORKED!!! Thank you so much. You are my new very best friend. I love you!
E :)

[guayacan27]

Can u explain how to remuxing the video using nicmp4box

Thx