A Bug in itunes in windows!!

Hello, I think this is a bug for Vista and XP.
If I share my Itunes' Library and access it from another PC (vista or XP tested), it can list the tvshows/movies/podcasts just fine, but when I play it, nothing happens. I see some network activity for brief 3-4 seconsd and then it stops.
The videos were imported into itunes on the macbook pro just fine (meaning the encoding is fine, MP4) and when I copied those videos file manually over to the PCs, the play fine too. Even if I share them over the network through SMB, they play fine streaming. They only fail when I play them through itunes' shared library.
95% of the videos fail, except for a few that I noticed and have not yet figured out a pattern. Videos that seems to work are 1) the downloaded guided tour video of iLife08 2) the mac tips podcasts from apple 3) a movie I converted using Quicktime into MP4 from divx
Any ideas?

This forum is for troubleshooting compatibility issues between Macs and Windows, not iTunes. You'll probably be better off posting your question in the iTunes discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=150

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