Jerky and slow MBP Mid-2010

My macbook pro 13" has recently started becoming jerky/stuttery after watching about 1-2 minute of any sort of online video (youtube mainly but also tv shows etc).
Its only started about a week ago and the mouse becomes slow and jerky, the screen changes slowly after clicking and the sound and video starts to stutter
Anyone else experiencing this problem? or know of a way to fix it (I've tried turning it off and on again)
I've tested on Safari and Google Chrome and i get the same error.
Cheers!

The three year period is from the date of purchase. Check your records.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4088
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MacBook Pro does not want to power up. You can only hear the CDRom making some noise and screen stays black and MBP powers off again.
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Disconnect power
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