Acrobat X Pro video playback is jumpy

I have created an interactive PDF from InDesign, placing an FLV file which will play back in the PDF. When I preview this on my new iMac 27" it works fine. However when viewing on a Mac Mini (bit old) it is very jumpy if it works at all.
Is this a machine capability thing? If so, does anyone have any idea why doing the same thing with other videos was not an issue? Also why the movie plays fine if opened directly in Adobe Media Player?
Is there anything I can do about it?
Thanks in advance

I'm having the same problem. TV shows played great on itunes 6, but they are unwatchable on itunes 7.
My computer is only an AMD Sempron 2500 with 512mb of Ram. However, x264 plays great full screen.
The problem is itunes and its new DRM.
My solution for now is to stop buying TV shows from itunes until apple fixes this problems.
Since my computer plays x264 video without problems, I'm not going to upgrade my computer to compensate for apple's bad software programming.
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Hey Steve,
Thanks for the response. You are correct, we lay out the documents in
InDesign, them export a PDF. From that point on we are doing all the linking
and placing of video files in Acrobat 6.0.2.
It has been a hard one to get consistent to trouble shoot out. We hit the
glitch with 9 due to the new windows machines needing 9.
I have been working in 9 a little and it seems like when I place a mpg file
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Last week I talked to our IT department about needing to move up to 9 and
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our instructor laptops currently in the field updated. The pinch is we are
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From: Steve Small <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:05:57 -0600
To: John Vatne <[email protected]>
Subject: Video Playback In Acrobat 9
I'm sorry, John, it sounds to me like you are using the term 'Acrobat' to mean
everything. I'm wondering if the files are being authored/created in Acrobat
6.0.2, then played back in Adobe Reader 9. If this is the case, it certainly
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authoring these files in Acrobat 9.x Professional. H.264 files are handled
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Acorbat 6.0.2.
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