How do I fix "This movie could not be played" erros?

On my iPod touch (1.1.3 with January Software Upgrade) whenever I try to play a movie it tells me "This movie could not be played." I don't quite understand why it is doing this. They are movies I downloaded from iTunes. I have some other movies that iTunes tells me cannot be played on my iPod and therefore does not sync those movies, so shouldn't it have kept these movies off as well if it couldn't play them? I am quite sure that my iPod should be capable of playing these movies. I have lately noticed that it also says the same message if I try to play a youtube video, another movie online, or audio online. What is happening and what can I do to fix it? (Already gone through everything in the "Five steps to fix common iPod Touch problems")
Thanks.

I got the same message. I made a slideshow in iPhoto. I used songs from itunes. I exported it into movies (.mov) and then tried to put it into my touch. I read somewhere (on another blog) that there are some licensing issues - which is stupid because I purchased the music from itunes. Anyway, the gist I got from that one was that you should burn the songs to a cd...then re-import them into itunes from the cd. Then you can use them without error. I don't know if I'm following the appropriate steps, but so far it isn't working for me.

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