Videos start then freeze

Just re-installed fresh version of Vista ultimate to try and fix this problem. Whenever I click on a Movie or TV show to watch, it starts and freezes 6-8 secs into it. Itunes (not responding), but it seems the media is still playing but frozen. Any help is appreciated.

You're not alone. Many people have encountered problems with iTunes videos on Windows Vista when the videos are stored on SATA disks.
No solution yet, sorry. If you have any other type of storage devices available to you (IDE drives, networked storage, some people have even reported success with USB flash drives), putting the videos onto that other storage seems to work.

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