Lightroom 5: Video playback trouble - and workaround.

I am currently trying the trial version of LR5 to decide if I should buy LR5. I am a long time user of Photoshop/Premiere Elements with 9000+ pictures and 600+ videos (AVI and HDV formats) so seamless catalog conversion is important to me. Here is my finding with a catalog conversion issue.
I converted my Photoshop/Premiere elements 9 catalog into an LR5 catalog but had problems with playback of the video files from the thumbnails in grid view.
Some of the video thumbnails would playback when double-clicked others would not. I then realised that the thumbnails that worked, had the length of the clip displayed in the lower left corner of the thumbnail, whereas those clips that did not work had a generic video icon (see attached screen dump) in the same place.
If I double clicked a thumbnail with the generic video icon, the view would change to Loupe view, and the playback bar be shown, but the video would not play and the bar was "dead". If I clicked the thumbnail again, the view would toggle between Grid and Loupe view. The only way to resume video playback, was to close LR5 and restart the application.
Video clips with the duration shown worked flawlessly.
By the way - the thumbnails with the generic video icon would play using "Open Video In Default Player" when right-clicking on generic video icon, but not from within LR5.
Each time I restarted LR5, I saw that the number of video files with the duration shown/updated increased every time but never completed even after leaving the pc for several hours. It has taken 20-25 close/start of LR5 to get through all the video files and apparently updating the db-entries in the LR-catalog.
I hope this is useful info for others with the same problem.
Br.
Michael Eriksen
Copenhagen, Denmark
--------- My system ------------
Lightroom version: 5.0 [907681]
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium Edition
Version: 6.1 [7601]
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 3,1 GHz
Built-in memory: 3959,0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 3959,0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 251,6 MB (6,3%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 224,4 MB
Memory cache size: 0,0 MB
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 2
System DPI setting: 120 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 1920x1080

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