Movie files saved as iTunes image

When I save movie files on my computer now they are saved as .mov but they have the iTunes image. They now open in iTunes when double clicked. My permissions are fine and the disk utility finds nothing wrong with the system or hard drives. The only way I can fix the problem is to get info and change the file to open with Quicktime. Anyone have a solution for this? I do not want my movies files to play in iTunes. I want then to play in Quicktime.

Depends on where they originated or something new set in QT 7.1+. Launch QT Player and note that the movie trailers point to the music store and not to http://www.apple.com/trailers/. I guess they're looking to get your nickels.

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Confused here. Which is it? "QuickTime (version 7.6.4) will not open the .mov files" or "QuickTime opens and plays the file but there is no sound or picture?"
Codecs: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, DV, Tween, Integer (Big Endian)
What QT application are your referring to here? A "Tween" track is not usual for captured DV/AIFF content and would probably cause problems with an application like iMovie '08/'09 which don't like all possible MOV container track types.
That's unusual, there is no Format information available. Just 1)source, 2)data size, 3)data range, 4)current time, and 5)duration.
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Setting up iTunes on a Windows computer to use movie files on Time Machine?

I posted this question in the TC Forum, too, but upon reflection thought that I should do so here, too.
I have succeeded in mapping my TC’s hard drive to my desktop Windows (XP Professional) computer. I have also changed the iTunes Music folder location on that computer to the folder on the TC’s hard drive that contains my MP4 movie files. I want to be able to leave iTunes open in the XP desktop at all times so that I can stream movies from iTunes to my Apple TV whenever I want. Currently, I am using iTunes on my MBP with Apple TV. The problem with that is that the MBP has to be awake and iTunes open. That’s a problem because I like to close the MBP when I am not using it.
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Winston – Thanks for your advice. Thanks to you, I seem to be pretty close to having this thing under control. After I designated the movies folder on the TC as my Music folder in iTunes, I double clicked on a couple of the files and each immediately showed up in my iTunes movies folder. They also streamed to my Apple TV without incident. So far so good.
My original movies folder on the TC is named M4V Movies. Somehow, iTunes created a subfolder in my M4V Movies folder, named it Movies, and moved the two movie files I had double clicked on there. From this I inferred that any movie I moved into the M4V Movies\Movies folder would show up in iTunes. Unfortunately, it didn’t work that way, as I moved another movie file from M4V Movies to the Movies subfolder and the file I had moved there didn’t appear in iTunes.
Finally, I simply dragged the remaining movie files’ icons into iTunes and, Voila!, they showed up both there and in my Shared Movies folder on Apple TV. Thus, it looks like the worst is over. The only remaining problem is that three of my movie files in iTunes are in the Movies subfolder but all of the others remain in the M4V Movies folder, although all are in the iTunes apps Movies folder. But that’s a problem for another day. By the way, dragging the movie files into the iTunes Movies folder did not cause them to be copied to the C: drive, the only full version of each is still on the TC.
Thanks for your help, I couldn’t have done it without you.

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