Videos won't play in safari on ipad

How do I fix this problem?
Anyone else have this issue?

This issue is with non Flash movies.
These are movies that used to play fine on my iPad. Now they dont play.
They remain in paused mode.
These are quicktime movies encoded in h264.
Like what you find on Lynda.com.
They should play back fine on an iPad.
They just arent working anymore.
My software is up to date on the iPad.
Im at a loss here.
I dont know how to fix this.
Is it a preference Im not seeing somewhere?

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