Imovie exported to mp4 choppy audio on PC QuickTime player

When I created a mp4 file from imovie, my client with a PC who has a QuickTime player hears choppy audio. It won't even open in his Windows Media Player bc of Codec issues. Then QuickTime plays it but audio is all choppy. It plays fine on my Apple. What am I doing wrong? If I create a QuickTime file, which I'm doing now, is there a special audio setting I should change so this will work on a PC?
Thanks!

When you export out of iMovie are you doing it using Share> Export QuickTime file or Export Movie? Believe it or not, you can export to Movie and rename the file extension from .m4v to .mp4 and get that to play on any Windows machine with Windows Media Player installed. It maybe a simple matter of saving it out to Movie, renaming it and sending that one along to the client, see if that one works better.

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