Quicktime movies aren't playing well w/ Quicktime upgrade

I upgraded to quicktime 7.5. b/c I upgraded itunes and itunes wouldn't run w/o it. Now the movies that I made aren't playable in quicktime. The audio plays fine but images are at a slow frame rate kinda like a bad streaming video.
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ive had the same problems since quite some time, it started when OSX was updated to 10.4.11.
the newer iTunes wouldn't smoothly play any MPEG4 movies i'd previously had running smoothly,
i was using a rather old G4/450,through OSX 10.4.7 and '9, it was encoding DVD's to MP4, and iTunes was encoding for ipod etc, all running really well.
until i got the 10.4.11 update, I also updated iTunes (and obviously had to upgrade Quicktime as a condition) - suddenly iTunes, cannot play any of the files well.....i knew it was nothing to do with the MP4's 'cos they'd been fine until after the updates....and quicktime wasn't as smooth either.
i suspect it has something to do with updating the OS and Apple 'tuning' it for newer faster machines/CPU speeds, and leaving older (but previously well enough equipped) machines with an OS that lets them down when it comes to managing the throughput of files for this kind of streaming.
at the time i realised this, i did a backup - then a clean install of OSX previous to 10.4.11, and the related iTunes/Quicktime.....it solved the issue completely.
but more recently i decided to instead keep up to date with the OS (and use 10.4.11) but re-encode the iTunes MP4's at a lower rate. it seems that before the 10.4.11 & iTunes/QT related updates, an old G4/450 could quite easily run any 1400kb/s MP4 movies, but after the updates, it would really only play anything 700-900(max) kb/s.
at the time i was thoroughly pixxed off with these updates for clogging up old machines/CPU that were completely up to the task, just to feed the power hungry new machines. it would be better if they tried to keep older products well - it would make Apple look like builders of great machines.

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