No Smooth Streaming Video In Tiger

I have a 20 Imac with Tiger 10.4.11, 3GB ram, 256meg video, 2.16 dual core processor, 500 GB HD with 413 GB free and the fastest cable internet connection available - something like 8mbps. I've been watching live streaming video of my church services on a Windows Vista computer with Windows Media Player without a flaw, that had a similar configuration as my Mac- certainly not higher than my Mac - with the same internet connection. Now on my Mac with Quicktime I watch about 4 or 5 minutes of good video then about 30 to 90 sec of dropped frames, chopped and frozen video. Then about 4 or 5 minutes of good video and the cycle goes on. I purchased Quicktime Pro in hopes that would help but there's no difference. Does anyone have any Ideas?
Thanks for any help.
PT

Don't understand why you ponied up $30 for the QuickTime Pro upgrade as it doesn't add anything the regular player doesn't already include.
Windows Media Player formats are not playable with QuickTime without that third party software help and your issues are with that software (and maybe your machine).
Your "fastest" Internet connection speed is also meaningless if the download stalls during playback. You can only get what the server sends and it sounds like they don't send fast enough.
Check with the folks at http://flip4mac.com/support.htm as it's their software (not QuickTime) that may be the bottleneck.

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