Playing .m4v files in front row

Hi,
I recently updated my OS to 10.6.3 from 10.5.x. The install stuffed up a few times and I ended up doing a wipe of the install disc and changing out the RAM to get it to finally work. Since then, I haven't been able to play some video formats in both Quicktime/Front Row or VLC (first time I have ever had trouble playing a video in VLC). I have DivX, Flip4Mac and Perian all installed (like I did before the update) and most files play, except for some .m4v files. It's weird because some of the .m4v files do play, and some don't. All the files played before the 10.6 update.
When I try to open the files in Quicktime, it gives me the message 'the document .... could not be opened. The movie is not in a format that Quicktime understands'. It says I may need to install additional software, but thats all installed.
In VLC it gave me a message which I can't seem to get it to give again, something about the files being unplayable and it can not be fixed.
Like I said, all the videos played in OS 10.5.
Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks in advance

I found that I had that problem as well. I've found most of the time the files can be played in Quicktime 7, however Quicktime X (included with 10.6 seems to have problems with a few versions of M4V, also VLC has the same problem, but Quicktime 7 seems to have no issue. I know it must be a compression scheme that is no longer supported, but I don't know how to find out what it is and how to get Quicktime X to identify the Codec.

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