Quicktime plays very choppy

I have a kodak easyshare camera and when I put the videos from my camera on my computer it goes to MOV format. When quicktime is trying to play the video it plays very slow and choppy. ANd you really can't watchit that way. I don't know how to fix this. My camera records in HD, i don't know if that makes a difference. How do I play my videos on quicktime? Or how do I make it so I can play it on something else? Media player does not recognize the MOV format.

I'm having a similar problem on a PowerBook. I noticed the problem after downloading the QT security update. After experiencing the problem, I opened the same .mov files in RealPlayer and did not experience the same problem. It appears to me that QT is not playing the files at the proper FPS rate. Frustrating.

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I have recently purchased a MacPro (late 2013, 8 core 3GHz, 64 GB memory, OSX 10.9.2) and this morning it started playing video very choppy.
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Tom,
When viewing the video it appears that it's skipping frames; the video is not smooth or 'fluid' if you will. These are of Diesel Freights being taped with the train moving perpendicular to the shooter and one can see them 'skip' or 'jerk' when viewing the video.
The computer is an 20" iMac, 2.66GHz CPU (Intel Dual Core) and was purchased in January, 2009. (Right before, for the same money, one can get a 24" screen, 4GB RAM, and 2x the hard disk, standard. Of course. Anyway...). There is >135GB of available disk space on this systems 300GB Disk, which is formatted OS-X Extended (Journaled).
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mr
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