How-to-fix? -- "This movie could not be played" error

all of sudden movies don't play; neither stuff on YouTube, nor the iPhone tutorials on Apple.com
i'm accessing these over wifi
i see an hour-glass-like thingie saying "loading movie" but then a pop-up pops-up giving the error message
any ideas?
thanks

thanks for the reply, and i thought of that, too
but i only have 43 pics on it, so there's still 7gb+
prior reply nailed it, so i suspect it twas an OS burp
and i thought only windoze had those
ciao'

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