Videos on ITunes play in two speakers instead of 5.1 surround

Hi,
Strange problem. My ITunes music plays just fine in 5.1 surround sound but the videos I purchased from Apple play in stereo (Left and right speakers)in the same Itunes. I have the last version of ITunes and Quictime.
Any ideas what happen? Thanks
TheBell

The three video's I tried at http://www.ted.com/ worked for me in Firefox 5.0, and used the Flash Player.
Do you have the Flash Player installed '''for Firefox'''? IE uses a different version of Flash - ActiveX than Firefox uses - Plugin, so on Windows PC's you need both versions installed and they appear in the Windows Control Panel as separate versions Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX and Adobe Flash Player 10 Plugin. Which ever browser you use to download Flash, Adobe will the supply the version for that browser.
1.Download the Flash setup file from here: 
[http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe Adobe Flash - Plugin version]. 
Save it to your Desktop. 
2. Close Firefox using File > Exit 
then check the Task Manager > Processes tab to make sure '''firefox.exe''' is closed, 
{XP: Ctrl+Alt+Del, Vista: Shift+Ctrl+ESC = Processes tab}
3. Then run the Flash setup file from your Desktop.
* On Vista and Windows 7 you may need to run the plugin installer as Administrator by starting the installer via the right-click context menu if you do not get an UAC prompt to ask for permission to continue (i.e nothing seems to happen). 
See this: 
[http://vistasupport.mvps.org/run_as_administrator.htm]

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