Quicklook won't play protected videos!

It kind of put's you off a little when you have videos on your Mac that you can browse in Finder, and press SPACE to Quicklook, ie play them immediately without having to load an app, then find out that the ones you bought legit on iTunes won't!!
What I don't understand is protected music files play perfectly in Quicklook!

Hmm. That's really odd how you don't have the problem. Am I the only one then?
Restarting has nothing to do with it. One thing I should also mention is the icon is the standard 'MPEG 4' iTunes logo and not a thumbnail picture. All of my protected video's are like that. All of my protected music tracks have thumbnails of the album just like the non-protected ones and non-protected videos.
Is there a problem with the format? iTunes itself has no problems playing the videos.
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