Why have my videos stopped playing on my older Apple flat screen 2nd display ?

Recently my videos , tv shows, etc.  have not been able to play on my older Apple flat screen 2nd display. I had been using the display to watch video on a second display while I work on my 2010 iMac. I thought standard defintion videos would be fine on the 2nd display. Now I get an error message telling me to move the itunes window to the main display (where they play fine but get in the way of  my work.

Hi
DVD-burners get's old
If You burn more than three DVDs in a row without pause to let DVD-Laser cool down - they grow older faster or even over-feat and die. My get's 20-30 minutes to cool down.
Free space on Start-Up hard disk - use to give problems - I never go under 25Gb free space when doing SD-Video and 4-5 times more if HD-material is used
Material feed into iDVD - there are more and more codecs coming and iDVD is picky. Some it can back-engineer to a working form - others not. A while ago this was no problem but as Cameras evolves this gives more and more problems. I convert all my material into a few working codecs/file formats as
• Video - AIC or streamingDV
• Photos - only as .jpg (Never .bmp)
• Audio - only .aiff (Never .mp3, .wma etc)
Forced or Panic Halts - introduces small errors (most often into the application pref. file) and builds up a coming disaster. Trashing this from time to time prevent's this and make application run better.
Just my spontaneous thoughts.
Yours Bengt W

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