Some movies no longer play in iTunes

I rip a lot of my DVDs/BR's and put them onto my external drive to play in iTunes and on my Apple TV. I noticed that some of my HD movies will play on my Apple TV, but they won't play in iTunes. I can skip to various scenes and iTunes just stays on that frame - it doesn't play. Oddly, Quicktime X and and other media player will play the movie. I had no issues in ML, this just happened after upgrading to Mavericks.
Any ideas?

It seems to be a perian problem.
Modified it like said on this post (for other reasons) : https://code.google.com/p/subler/issues/detail?id=404#c12
Completed by this link : http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/87/converting-blue-ray-discs-andor-mkvs-ipad-ipho ne-–-part-iii
For me it solved the problem (Mavericks on a macbook pro 3.1).
Hope it does for you too.

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