Front Row - Some Quicktime made movies = Black Screen

I have a problem with the new front row.
The problem is, that in the new front row, some music videos will not show, the title picture shows but only plays audio and the screen is black. It worked on the old front row perfectly. It plays in quicktime, well quicktime created the movie so it should play its own quicktime movies. It also plays in iTunes which I imported it into the iTunes area.
Plays (mp4)
16 Numar pan' la unu.mp4
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44,100 kHz
H.264 Decoder, 320 x 172, 16,7 Mill.
Datarate: 826.30 kBit/s
01 Bright Eyes.mp4
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44,100 kHz
H.264 Decoder, 768 x 438, 16,7 Mill
780.56 kBit/s
Doesn't Play (mp4)
Fruchtalarm.mp4
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44,100 kHz
H.264 Decoder, 640 x 480, 16,7 Mill
Datarate: 1499.25 kBit/s
04 Adolfs Bunker.mp4
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44,100 kHz
H.264 Decoder, 480 x 360, 16,7 Mill
Datarate: 807.06 kBit/s
Whats the difference? Except for the size?
or
Plays (Mov)
On top of spaghetti.mov
MPEG1 Muxed, 288 x 240 Pixel
Datarate: 857.13 kBit/s
Doesn't Play (Mov)
01 Wings of Angels.mov
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44,100 kHz
H.264 Decoder, 480 x 360, 16,7 Mill.
Datarate: 770.97 kBit/s
Der kleine Eskimo.mov
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44,100 kHz
H.264 Decoder, 480 x 360, 16,7 Mill
Datarate: 790.41 kBit/s
I don't feel like reencoding, might lose quality and it takes way too long, takes forever with quicktime, encoding once with quicktime is enough.
I am using MacOsX 10.5.1, Front Row 2.0, 20" Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz.
Any help will be appreciated.

I add some infos:
I saw that when the track are correctly named with the language (ie: italiano, english, etc etc) fronw row can menage the correct track, while there are troubles when the names of audio are track1, track2...
Is there a software that can be use to rename existing audio tracks in a avi file?
best regards

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