Downloaded movies arent playing in itunes

i downloaded movies that i own onto a new computer and they wont play. i hit play and all i get is a black screen with no sound and no picture. i can select chapters and the timer of the movie counts but its not really playing at all. do i have to do another authorize thing that i dont know about or is itunes broken for some unknown reason...

I have a similar problem, I had to uninstall and then re-install itunes because it kept messing up on me and when I reinstalled it, my digital movies stopped working. All my songs work fine and my movies are still stored in the library, but they won't open. I just get a black screen with no sound and it doesn't play.
Does anyone have an answer to this? I'm new to this site and tried to create a new thread asking about this but can't seem to find a button/link on these forum pages to let me do that.

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