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When I choose export from playing an AVI movie (from my digital camera), I chose the iPhone option. It exported as m4v. When I tried to sync it on my iPhone 3g from iTunes, a message said it couldn't be played on my iPhone.

I don't see any other options from Quicktime player export except iPhone (cellular), whatever that means...

What am I doing wrong?

Larry

I suspect it thinks that either the movie is protected, for some reason, or the format wasn't correct. I've synched my iTouch with several movies, though I converted them to MPG. I'll have to check on what I did and what format I used though. I never use quicktime to convert movies, I usually use Handbrake .

Thanks for the thoughts.. The video(s) certainly aren't 'protected' since I made them, and they play okay from quicktime.
It's the message "cannot be played on this iPhone" that has me puzzled.

Larry,

If you have not already done so, make sure your original movie file is safely backed up before proceeding.
One thing to try: highlight the video in iTunes and then use the Advanced menu and select Create iPod or iPhone Version.

Depending on the size of the movie, this may take a while.

I am not sure if this might affect the quality of the movie.

If you sync a large res movie, the ipod has to do the conversion anyway, so doing it in advance won't hurt quality as viewed on the ipod. Just so long as it's converted to the exact resolution that the ipod wants, so it won't make any attempt to convert it during playback.

Thank you, dianne!
That did the trick. Investigating the differences, BOTH are suffixed m4v, but the one that didn't work (and remained dimmed in the iTunes movies tab) was in all upper case...M4V and was created from QuickTime.
Verrrry Interresstingggg!

Larry