Purchased videos not playing in iTunes

Hello, recently my purchased TV shows are not playing in iTunes. Video window comes up, and the play time increases, but there is no video or sound.
If I go into "C:\Users\Derek\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\TV Shows\" and open the m4v file in QuickTime the videos play just fine. (they just refuse to play in iTunes)
Any ideas?
PS: I'm on latest version of both iTunes and QT (just checked).

Any ideas?

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