Jerky playback of wmv files

Please can anyone suggest how to fix this. Medium size wmv file (128Mb). Flip4mac version 2.2.3.7 and QuickTime 7.6 (472). Very jerky playback of both audio and video with much spinning beachball.
Message was edited by: Roger Sinden

Medium size means nothing. How long is it? If it is one minute that is a really high bitrate video and the G4 may not be able to decode it fast enough.
Try this - open it, then "save As" which will save it into a MOV container (it will still be WMV video).
See if it plays back nicely. Also try a computer from more recent times.
You can see a 128 MB WMV will save as a 256MB or even bigger MOV file as the video is not compressed any more in the MOV container.

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