Very choppy animation when maximizing window on some movies

Hi when playing some movies using Quicktime X and Perian, when I click the maximize window, the animation is very choppy. Sometimes the dock won't even disappear. On movie trailers it's perfectly smooth though. Is this normal? thanks

Anyone else have this?

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