Getting "Cannot Play Movie" for what appears to be a good video file

When I load a video by url from an email or in Safari, I get the message "Cannot Play Movie". However, I've written a simple app which just instantiates the MPMoviePlayerController and calls play() and it works flawlessly for the same video loaded from the same url.
I get the same issue regardless of where the video is hosted, i.e. if I load the same video from a different url on a different server.
QuickTime reports:
H.264, 480 x 270, Millions
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44.100 kHz
480 x 270 pixels
The video url is http://sistertech.s3.amazonaws.com/35007382172981/1655042009/streams/35007382172981-1655042009-ecar-124950129340988000-16-9.mp4
Also, this only became a problem after the 3.0 update.

i would just like to point out that when i record a video on my new imac using ibooth it obviously saves it as a quicktime file.
however when emailing this to my iphone it presents the file for download. when the file is downloaded it displays the following error - movie format not supported when it opens quicktime.
does the iphone require an upgrade of quicktime software?
seems pretty pointless that it doesnt work even thought it is another mac product??!!
thanks

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