MP4 on a G3 iBook?

Hi
I'm trying to get .mp4 video files (on an eHDD) to play on an old 500MHz G3 iBook running 10.4.11 - they were originally converted from DVD using Handbrake, on a G5 iMac where they ran quite happily. The G3 has QT 7.6.4, plus Perian, plus VLC - but nothing will play the video. I hear the audio track but the video is just blank black. Normal DVDs play AOK.
Is there anything I'm doing wrong or must I accept that this machine is too old even for MP4 video?

No dice I'm afraid, BD. The Div-X installed QT behaved just as before,while MPlayer gave this error :
2012-02-07 22:01:57.876 MPlayer OSX[1287] Path to MPlayer: /Applications/MPlayer OSX.app/Contents/Resources/External_Binaries/mplayer_noaltivec.app/Contents/Mac OS/mplayer
2012-02-07 22:01:57.876 MPlayer OSX[1287] Arg: /Volumes/Music & Visuals/QuickTime video/The World At War/9 Stalingrad.mp4
2012-02-07 22:01:57.876 MPlayer OSX[1287] Arg: -framedrop
2012-02-07 22:01:57.877 MPlayer OSX[1287] Arg: -vo
2012-02-07 22:01:57.877 MPlayer OSX[1287] Arg: macosx:shared_buffer
2012-02-07 22:01:57.877 MPlayer OSX[1287] Arg: -slave
2012-02-07 22:01:57.877 MPlayer OSX[1287] Arg: -identify
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/MPlayer OSX.app/Contents/Resources/External_Binaries/mplayer_noaltivec.app/Contents/Mac OS/mplayer
Reason: image not found
2012-02-07 22:01:58.624 MPlayer OSX[1287] Abnormal playback error. mplayer returned error code: 5
Something to do with no Altivec?

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