MKV x264 Movie plays great on QT X but choppy at Front Row

When I playing 720p .mkv (x264) files with QT X (with Perian) at fullscreen there is no problem, movie plays at great speed. But when I tried to play with them Front Row it is always choppy (I waited for buffering ending).
I uninstall Snow Leopard and install Leopard but the problem is unsolved (QT 7 Pro plays movie without a problem at fullscreen).
What is wrong with Front Row? It uses the same Quick Time Framework.
I can not use my Mac Mini 2.1 as a home theatre system because of that.
My conf: Mac Mini 2.1 2 Ghz Core 2 Duo 4 GB RAM Superdrive

It could be a 'difficult' form of Matroska file. FYI Matroska is just a container like MOV or AVI, and some mkv have the video encoded with Real Video Codec (RV9 RV10). Perian+QT can't decode this, but VLC will play .mkv files just fine on OS X, as long as they don't use H.264!
It's a bit of a lottery until Matroska decide to support the Apple platform. I have found this:
http://mkv4mac.free.fr/index.php?lang=en&p=lec
which may help.
But there may be another workaround: 1. Get Info the mkv file
2. Change to extension to wmv. Save as wmv and that could work better.
Or this link may be helpful:
http://www.squidoo.com/mkv-converter-mac
Recently, a poster (ZachP14) suggested this:
"There's a program called Plex that runs .mkv files awesome on my 2.0 ghz macbook."
http://www.plexapp.com/
Maybe worth a try?

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