Quicktime Pro plays vids as if streaming - can't FF until completed??

When I play vids these days from DVD, CD or hard drive the slider bar on the bottom of my Quicktime Pro gradually darkens in front of the position slider, moving slowly left to right as if the video is downloading or streaming. I can't fast forward the video past the end of the dark line, and have to wait until the entire shaded part goes all the way to the right before I can rewind. It never used to do this and it's quite frustrating if looking for a section of video as it can take ages.
Why is it doing this and what can I do to optimise things?

Found one difference between this ScreenCastsOnline podcast (which doesn't show up when I stream from my iTunes library) and all the rest: This one is 320x180 while the rest are 640x360.
It will sync but it won't stream. Once I save it as mp4 (no re-encoding), it shows up fine in the "Movies" category. Go figure.

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