Trouble playing Music Videos on 8.1

Music videos on iTunes (8.1) will only play audio even though Movies and TV Shows will display regularly on Quicktime (7.6). I've followed standard "If you can't play a video" iTunes Help instructions to no avail.

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ITunes won't play music videos.

iTunes won't play music videos.
Posted: Jan 14, 2008 2:23 AM
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Hey guys, here's my problem.
I had some major issues with OSX last week that a trip to the Apple Store couldn't fix. Their only advice was to save all my pictures, music, documents, etc. and reformat. I did that yesterday. I reinstalled everything and then downloaded all the most recent updates.
Today, I can play all the music I own in iTunes (music imported from CDs, bought from other sites, and music bought from iTunes itself). However, it won't play any of the music videos I have (all bought off iTunes).
I have authorized the computer again and again. When I try to open the videos in Quicktime it tells me that I don't have permission to play them and that I need to authorize the computer.
I'm lost. Any help?

Yup, this Audio but no Video WAS exactly the same trouble I was having, on my MacBook and iMac but not the other 2 MacBooks. This was due to the speaker settings at the bottom right hand corner of the iTunes window. I do use multiple speakers via Airtunes, on the two that were having trouble but not the other two, and although the speakers were only set to the computer it still wouldn't play the video content.
Whilst the audio (of the music video) was playing I then went to reselect multiple speakers, which brought up the "*failure to connect to remote speakers network refused connection*" warning, then I unchecked the remote speakers to leave just the "Computer" and hey presto the video came to life.
Thank you Charles C n Miami and hope this extra info helps.
Happy Music Video Watching
Matt

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I found the answer minutes after posting the question ! Seems you cannot have a remote set of speakers selected when playing music videos. Somebody had already answered previously
Message was edited by: Dexterdawg

Hi Dexterdawg
Can you direct me to the thread as I can not sort out the same problem on my iMac
Thanks

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When playing music I am able to select any airplay device and it works fine.
When playing movies I am able to select any airplay video device and it works fine.
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If I try to launch iTunes in safe mode it fails to play at all because of the lack of Quicktime support.
Obviously it's something in my ~/Library that is messing it up somehow.
The only plugin I have is AudioScrobbler.bundle and removing launching iTunes does not solve it.
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Thanks,
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