Movie playback problem for PC iTunes

Hello,
I recently began having an issue with playing movies in iTunes.  For some reason, I am no longer able to play music videos / movies in my iTunes.
When I click to play the movie, the screen is completely back and the timer / play length, is already at the end of the movie.  However the movie does start at the correct spot, as I am able to very briefly hear the audio.  Additionally, if I were to scroll through the movie I could see the visual, however if I click to a certain area I will just see a frozen frame and the movie will fail to play.
I followed all the trouble shooting steps listed by apple and other steps like making sure all the software is up-to-date, etc.
Anyone have any similar issues or advice to tackle this problem?
Any help at all would be appreciated.
Regards,
Jordan

I have similar problem on  both my Windows 7 Laptop and XP desktop. Movies will not start in my case, but if i use Windows media player they work fine. Both running the latest 10.x. version

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