Video podcasts in iPhone 4 / iOS 4

Question

I download lots of podcasts, audio and video, and I have them all put in an intelligent playlist named “new episodes” which I synchronise with my iPhone. This way I could listen to all new podcasts from different sources in a row, without having to keep fiddling with the device to move from one list to another.
Up to now this worked perfectly. I keep the iPod app in the background, which was possible even before iOS 4, and listen to the wit and wisdom of the world. That meant I listened to video podcasts as audio only, of course, but that was ok, because most were talk shows anyway; I could perfectly follow without having to watch.
The iPhone 4 or the iOS 4 broke this system. Now my podcasts playlist just skips video podcasts and automatically goes to the next audio podcast. There is no way you could get the **** thing to play that video podcast except by going to the iPod app and manually selecting it from the list.
I don’t know if this is a bug or a new “feature”, but it is annoying. I hope it is a bug, I find that easier to accept than the idea that Apple just decided you shouldn’t listen to video podcasts they way you want to listen them.
Has anybody had or noticed this problem?

Answer 1

I have certainly noticed this problem, I'm finding it with Purchased Music Videos. Some of my music videos will play but it seems that some won't. They all seem to play fine if I select them manually from the videos list but if they are in a playlist or just general shuffle they'll never be played.
Moreover, if I put one of these videos in a playlist with one normal song (or working video) and then select the video to play by tapping it, it gets skipped and the song will play and Next and Previous will not select that video.
However, I figured a small workaround for now. If I make a playlist of only the videos that have this problem, they'll all play fine and I can press next and previous to go between them.
So far the only common feature for me is that these were purchased after 3th of March, all videos loaded before then work fine. The date of the first video that exhibits this is 9th May.