Sharing Video Files over iTunes

Hi, in my house I have 2 Mac's and one PC, I'm sharing a large amount of video files from one of my macs that I have encode myself via iTunes 7. The other mac can playback all these video files fine over my network.
My problem is with the PC it will play the smaller files (files under 350MB) but it refuses to play files that are any larger. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Make sure you have the latest QT and iTunes on the PC - that might help... the PC side is a bit finiky but i have the same setup and it "seems" to be working ok for me so far.

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Schmeck wrote:
I understand Apple prohibits the customer from manually inputting MPAA or TV ratings into the video files centrally stored in an iTunes library
You understand incorrectly.
as ripping DVDs is considered illegal
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