Strange Quicktime Player Error Message

One of the movies in my iTunes library suddenly stopped working and when I attempted to play it using Quicktime, I got the following error message while QT was trying to open the file: "The movie could not be opened. An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie." Does anyone have any idea what that means?

first, make sure you have flip4mac or perian plugins installed. you won't be able to play wmv files without those. next, it's probably looking for a QT player 7 and doesn't know where it is. select a wmv file and enter command+i. in the resulting popup go to the "open with section" and set it to open with QT player X (or 7 if you want) and click "change all".

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