Freezes while playing video in iTunes

I don't know if this is a hardware issue, or software, which I doubt because I did a clean install of Snow Leopard. But anyway, I have this issue when I am watching video podcasts or movies where it would freeze for a couple of seconds, and then would start playing again, but it doesn't startup from where it froze. It would jump a couple of minutes forward, so I have to rewind back to where it left off and it would play fine. Is anyone on here having this issue?

I have this same problem while watching Mad Men episodes purchased from iTunes (while connected to my HDTV using a mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter). The video and audio will freeze with no cursor or keyboard input possible for ~15-30 seconds. When it unfreezes, it starts playing not where it froze but with a gap missing similar to the length it froze.

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Try to download the application VLC.
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Dear community,
When playing video in iTunes the sound is increasingly delaying and after approximately 10 seconds it becomes almost impossible to watch the video. When you move to the other part of the video, the sound is back to normal for a short time and then becomes delayed again.
When video is playing, it is possible to hear that sound is not smooth, but has very minor breaks. The video is downloaded to the computer. I opened this video with Windows Media Player and QuickTime and it works good, but, unfortunately, it does not work correctly while playing in iTunes player.
I experience this problem on Windows 7 32-bit.
Please, help with this problem.
Sincerely,
Roma

Solved.
Found this great solution:
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This is what worked for me for Windows 7 — Go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound > Manage Audio Devices > >>> Right click on your Speakers and Headphones and go to Properties > Advanced
Now… bring the quality of your sound down – I changed mine from 24 bit, 192000 Hz (Studio Quality) TO 24 bit, 44100 Hz (Studio Quality) — it works like a charm for me now! Hope this helps.
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And another one, but not tested:
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I am one of many that had the synch problem. I say HAD because I finally found a fix or possibly an incorrect setting in BIOS. I noticed one of the sound settings in Bios was set to HD.
I had the option to change to AC97. saved the Bios and rebooted……hooray problem solved. I also noticed that unlocking cores made the symptom even worse. All is running very well with all cores unlocked and 24bit 192000Hz set on the sound card.
for information I have a ASUS M4N68T-M V2 motherboard and
Xonar DS sound card
Hope this helps.
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Here is my info on the Software running:
Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro5,4
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.53 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          3 MB
Memory:          4 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          MBP53.00AC.B03
SMC Version (system):          1.49f2
Serial Number (system):          W80106UD7XJ
Hardware UUID:          D8275507-E109-5D6E-A2EF-44AFDA24818C
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:          Enabled
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Description:          Panic (system crashes) log
Size:          7 KB
Last Modified:          9/11/11 9:24 AM
Location:          /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2011-09-11-092404_USER**-MacBook-Pro.pani c
Recent Contents:          Sun Sep 11 09:24:04 2011
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x235410): "zalloc: \"kalloc.8192\" (333 elements) retry fail 3, kfree_nop_count: 0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:992
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x1063cd8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x1063d0c 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x1063d28 : 0x235410 (0x594ac8 0x593511 0x14d 0x3)
0x1063dc8 : 0x22096a (0x37732d8 0x1 0x2e2ffe06 0xb61b)
0x1063e08 : 0x2209aa (0x1698 0x1 0x1063e28 0x2a45c9)
0x1063e28 : 0x210703 (0x1698 0x246 0x1063ec8 0x20ff8e)
0x1063e58 : 0x21db5d (0x10f8 0x7fff 0x1fd7c8 0x60eb)
0x1063e98 : 0x210a86 (0x420fdf00 0x0 0x932edc0 0x9caec70)
0x1063ef8 : 0x216f84 (0x420fdf00 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x1063f78 : 0x295c57 (0x901f888 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x1063fc8 : 0x2a256d (0x901f884 0x1 0x10 0x8ad6560)
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
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10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro5,4 (Mac-F22587A1)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 200227853218953
vm objects:13272196
vm object hash entri:1142400
non-kernel map entri:3678708
kernel map entries:5398492
pv_list:2587704
kalloc.16:1056768
kalloc.32:2367488
kalloc.64:4521984
kalloc.128:4005888
kalloc.256:4435968
kalloc.512:3469312
kalloc.2048:3461120
kalloc.4096:2191360
kalloc.8192:2727936
vm pages:42506156
ipc ports:54427072
threads:465213840
x86_64 saved state:136719360
uthreads:235456656
vnodes:9247040
namecache:3153840
HFS node:13536820
HFS fork:5727232
ubc_info zone:1876800
vstruct zone:1228080
Kernel Stacks:1441792
PageTables:28237824
Kalloc.Large:9771748
unloaded kexts:
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