Hey everybody, Excuse me if this has already been covered on this topic - I haven't had time to read all.
Handbrake recently released a new update which allows 640x480 H264 iPod compatible conversion, so I asked them what the secret sauce was for their ffmpeg. They pointed me to the post linked below. It's 7am and I went to bed at 3.30, so there's no way I can look through it with any intelligence, but I thought one of you might want to. A Handbrake user called Audley provided the new Handbrake team with the ffmpeg patches, and posted them here: I wondered whether it might be possible for someone smart to find the relevant parts that make it work - uuid atom or whatever - and use some of the dev tools provided by Apple to make it work in Quicktime. Perhaps make a custom export setting which is downloadable and installable into Quicktime, like 3ivx? http://handbrake.m0k.org/forum_old/viewtopic.php?t=2581