Itunes trailer won't play

when I download a trailer in itunes(windows 7), it will not play. the video window opens and just turns green.

I too am having the exact same problem, and I have to say, it's driving me CRAZY! I even removed and reinstalled both iTunes 7.7.1 (11) and Quicktime 7.5 (149.5). In fact, I actually "upgraded" to 7.7.1 after I was having the same issue with the previous version of iTunes (sorry, can't remember exactly which version that was). Until about a few weeks ago, whenever I was browsing movies all I had to do was click on "View Trailer" and it would start playing within seconds. Now, I get a blank (black) window where the trailer used to play, and if--after some seconds of waiting--I click on the pause button and then click it again (once it turns to the play button), it starts playing the first few seconds of the movie and stops (goes back to the black movie panel). It's really weird. Weirder still is that when I look at the forum, they have all this info and advice for this problem under Windows XP, yet ironically, iTunes trailers seem to work just fine on my 4-year old Dell laptop (Pentium III 1Ghz)...!

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