Itunes (No audio playback on movies)

Running 10.6.2
Hi guys/gals,
I have recently encoded a video using visualhub. I'm pretty conversant with doing this and have been for years. However, the recent video I have encoded will not play sound when played through itunes. Music and other stuff in my library work fine, its just this movie.
If I drag the movie from itunes back to my desktop and play via quicktime or play it through apple tv via itunes all is okay, with perfect picture and sound.
Anyone got any ideas???

Anyone??? I'm miffed

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• Free Space on internal boot hard disk. How much ?
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