My video podcasts won't work

as soon as i upgraded to iTunes 7 all of my video podcasts became a weird green/orange static. the sound is sometimes messed up pretty bad. i tried going to the podcast directory to redownload them but the video podcasts there have the same problems. does anyone know why this is happening or when they'll fix this. this seems to be a pretty major thing.

i found the answer from a different topic
1. Quit iTunes.
2. Go to: Start menu > Control Panels > QuickTime.
3. Click on the Advanced tab.
4. Un-check the checkbox next to "Enable Direct3D video acceleration".
5. Open iTunes.
6. Play the video.

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