"Choppy" Video but fine music

Hello, I recently downloaded the video "How to save a life" from the band The Fray. The music plays perfectly through itunes but the video is very choppy maening that it rolls about a second or two of video, pauses for a second, then continues for a second or two and os on and so on throughout the entire length of the video. The music never skips a beat. This is the first time I have downloaded a video so is it may a setting or something? I have the latest version of Itunes that i just downloaded specifically to watch this video. I am not sure if it is defective in Itunes system or was the video produced that way? (hard to believe because it is as annoying as **** to watch) Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Do you have a fairly newer (eg, fast) machine? Plenty of free RAM? Vvideos from iTunes are encoded in the H.264 codec, which takes a lot of processing power to play - particularly the new 640x480 resolution files from iTunes. I don't know what is a good speed for windows, but my sister's 3 year old Dell (3Ghz Pentium 4 desktop) plays them OK. The audio on the iTunes videos are 128kbps AAC files, which don't take that much processor to play.
I know, however, that my 1.67 G4 Powerbook can play iTunes videos just fine, but my 400mhz PowerMac G4 can't - it shows exactly the same symptoms (frame dropping) you describe - but the video will freeze after the first frame. This is playing the old 320x240 resolution videos, BTW. I don't know what these speeds translate to in the Intel processors, however.
Good luck,
-Dan

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