Vide playback on G5 choppy

Video playback on my G5 is really choppy and lags.
I've got 2GB RAM.
Any ideas on how to speed things up?
Andy

Is your Quicktime up to date (7.6.2)? Are you trying to play an HD video?
Here are the iTunes hardware requirements for video playback.
-Playing videos purchased on the iTunes Store requires a Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5 or 1.0GHz PowerPC G4 or faster processor
-Playing HD-quality videos purchased on the iTunes Store requires a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor
-512MB of RAM; 1GB is required to play HD-quality videos
-Playing videos also requires at least 16MB of video RAM

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