I know it seems like this problem is on track to being fixed/solved but I just wanted to add another file into the mix of problematic movie playback..

I've got a few movies and tv show which I've bought from iTunes, I removed the DRM with Requiem and tried playing them, weirdly I had the same '5 White Dots Of Death', as with my home-made encodes, it's starting to look like h.264 playback is broken in general.

In reading the other threads, I had an idea - is the problem with tags within the file?? either present or missing, is maemo/N900 expecting a definite tag that is missing or corrupt?? I know (well think I know) that tags and meta data is store in the first 300 odd kbs or something similar in a file, could this causing the problem??

I feel helpless in this mini-quest to figure out the exact cause and solution, is there anything I could do to help???