ITunes freezes when playing video.

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Let me start by saying I've seen many others complain about this with mostly no resolution.
To elaborate, when initiating any video in iTunes (be it a movie, TV show, music video, or iTunes Store preview), the application immediately hangs. No errors -- iTunes just stops responding and can only be closed by killing its process. I've tried all the solutions people hash out time and again to no avail. This has been happening since iTunes 10, and ever since I've been playing all its videos through QuickTime (which works perfectly).
In Safe Mode, however, a black box appears briefly (as if the video's about to play), before a Windows "iTunes has stopped responding" prompt comes up. Not only that, but I also get two error logs in Event Viewer:
Application Error:
Faulting application name: iTunes.exe, version: 11.0.1.12, time stamp: 0x50c8fc7e
Faulting module name: QuickTime.qts, version: 7.73.80.64, time stamp: 0x50890e53
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00880aba
Faulting process id: 0x1714
Faulting application start time: 0x01cdf55090e5ec83
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\QuickTime.qts
Report Id: d36de281-6143-11e2-9fbd-20cf30704519
Windows Error Reporting:
Fault bucket 3305968357, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: http://oca.microsoft.com/resredir.aspx?SID=7277&iBucketTable=1&iBucket=-
988998939&BucketHash=0ca2959e4da8580d00f4437ae9656186
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
P1: iTunes.exe
P2: 11.0.1.12
P3: 50c8fc7e
P4: QuickTime.qts
P5: 7.73.80.64
P6: 50890e53
P7: c0000005
P8: 00880aba
P9:
P10:
Attached files:
C:\Users\Krotera\AppData\Local\Temp\WERC754.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
These files may be available here:
C:\Users\Krotera\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive
\AppCrash_iTunes.exe_b9a5dae41cf0405f9ed736a58658946f78bfd2c6_0c59d71c
Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: d36de281-6143-11e2-9fbd-20cf30704519
Report Status: 0
I don't know how helpful these logs are, but I've never seen anyone post anything similar when reporting this issue. Microsoft's link in the second one's header tells you to install a "newer" version of iTunes 64-bit even if you have the newest one (and I've done it with no improvement). In one post, iTunes wouldn't play video for somebody until they were told to uninstall Klite Codec Pack. This was the only time I came across this suggestion, and, having Klite, did it too, but with no improvement. iTunes still hangs when trying to play video, it crashes "properly" with a Windows prompt when trying to play video in Safe Mode, and QuickTime works fine (which I guess is my only solution).
Some insight from Apple would be appreciated. This has been happening since iTunes 10, so I consider the problem to be on iTunes' end rather than my system's, which has by and large been a constant the whole time.

Codec packs are notorious for causing iTunes problems.
Try searching c:\windows\SysWOW64 for files with Quicktime in the name.
There should be just two:
Quicktime.qts
QuicktimeVR.qtx
If there are any other files or folders, try dragging them to the desktop ot any temporary folder.
Does that make any difference.
After doing that, do you have the latest Quicktime installed, if not update it.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html
Earlier versions of Quicktime can upset iTunes.

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