Problems with 10.6 playing video files in itunes.

Installed 10.6.3 two days ago - everything was working fine. Updated to 10.6.8 today and lost internet connection. Re-installed 10.6.3. Everything working fine except that I cannot play movies or tv shows in itunes now. Everything else is working alright. Any ideas?

JC:
This is something that has already been discussed at length in the following thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=895656&tstart=25
Unfortunately, there is no solution to this. Most videos under 30 minutes will play (I say most because it is not 100%).
What some people in this forum have done is to break the videos longer than 30 minutes in parts. I personally have not done that because I find it to be a waste of time.
Rodrigo
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