Quicktime White Screen with Audio

In the last couple of days, whenever I try to play quicktime files (.mov) in my browser, I get a white screen, but I can still hear the audio. These are usually short files (from blogs such as crooks and liars), and they are definitely .mov files.
I've tried playing them with the browser extensions in Safari and Firefox. I've also tried playing it directly in QT player. The only place they work is using VLC. What's happening??

It actually turned out to be a bad install of my quicktime software. I eventually discovered that the problem only affected one website's QT content, and what was especially odd was that this website had been working perfectly the day before. I even tried playing the videos that I had watched teh day before and they didn't work. As it happened, Apple released an update to QT a couple of days later, and installing that fixed the problem.
Your problem sounds a bit different, and since I don't do much encoding, I can't really help you out.

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