I can no longer play video in iTunes.

I have a bunch of movies that I have ripped and several downloaded from the iTunes store. All of a sudden, none of them will play. When I press the play button, I get a black screen and the slider is set to where it was the last time I watched, but nothing happens. iTunes does not crash, but will not play...no sound, no video, nothing at all. These are all videos and movies that I have watched before, they are in the correct format.
I have upgraded to 11, but the same thing happened in 10. I have also tried re-installing quictime.

The usual explanation for this is that:
1. You have changed the iTunes preferences so that when importing a song the file is not copied into the iTunes media library - doing so is the default.
2. You have subsequently moved the original file, which iTunes has been using to play your song, and so of course it's lost contact with it.
If 1. is not the case, then the files in the iTunes Library (by default, in (user)/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music) may have been moved, deleted or become corrupted. You should check in that library, but don't start moving files in there about. If this is the case you should delete the songs in the iTunes Music list, not in the Finder, and re-import.

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