Playing video podcast problem

Hello-
I am trying to play video podcasts on my itunes. So far no success. The video starts but is nothing but scrambled colors (mostly purple). audio is fine. Anyone can help?

I just started having this problem on Friday afternoon, with no changes to my system information. Most of the video podcasts just show their album cover (if available) while playing the audio without video.
I also have a similar problem that could be unrelated, but might give some insight into the cause of this problem.
Before this I've noticed that as podcasts finalized download in the queue the video and audio in the pocast I was listening to or watching would stop, for as much as 10 seconds, while iTunes processed the podcast and brought it into the Podcast window. Once it was there and nothing was being downloaded everything was fine.

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FROM THE APPLE LINK: problem--iPod plays audio but not videos, movies, or TV shows
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