Video playback is still choppy....

I've tried the settings suggestions from Apple and nothing seems to be helping the choppy video playback. When downloading music, or video I can't even watch the video at all-- it just freeze frames, but will still play audio. I also tried to watch mpeg4's in Quicktime, with iTunes minimized and it still doesn't work. Anyone have any fixes or suggestions for this problem, or is it just my computer?

Finally, My video display return!
Please refer to this
Troubleshooting iTunes for Windows video playback perfomance issues
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303706
My steps:
1. Disable Direct3D video acceleration in QuickTime
2.Increase Display screen resolution(not color quality)
I increased the display to the highest resolution from 1024X768 to 1280X1024. Video works! But the characters for highest resoution is too small,I return to original resolution 1024X768. Solve my problem.
Windows XP Pro Itunes 7.0.1.8

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Hello Wesleywilson2349,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
Depending on your version of Windows, I would recommend either one of these 2 articles:
Troubleshooting iTunes for Windows Vista or Windows 7 video playback performance issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1718
And:
iTunes for Windows XP: Troubleshooting video playback
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1386
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Hello Mac lovers,
I recently acquired a Quicksilver on eBay. It had a 1Ghz single processor --weird, I know; my guess is that it was overclocked--, 1 Gb of memory, the stock 32 Mhz Nvidia AGP card, and a regular ATA drive. Performance was poor, video playback was real choppy, and streaming internet video, impossible.
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After trying yet another processor with no luck, I swapped the logic board for one I got from a reputable eBay vendor. (His moniker is zegun, he is great, and he's not paying me to post this, by the way.) All the video issues are finally gone. My Quicksilver is fully functional for the first time since I bought it.
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I am running a 27" 2011 iMac, 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM and AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1025 MB graphics card. I am running the newest editon of Mountain Lion.
This is the first time I have had this, however I am not impressed at all. Video playback becomes laggy/choppy, the sound goes all fuzzy and becomes out of sync. It first started with "Blue Planet", I got it about 3 weeks ago now and I simply cannot finish the series as the play back becomes horrible. I have "Ancient Aliens" and that never done anything like that on the same machine. Even the HD version played perfectly.
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I don't really fancy sitting through a 2 hour film pausing it every 15 mins, if I wanted to do that I'd have just not paid for it.
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Thanks for your reply.
Ugh. Sorry. It is frustrating and in today's technological marketplace should be one of the easier things for the Mac to handle.
Received another feedback from someone. Have to try when my daughter gets up, but right-clicking on iTunes and doing a Get Info will yield the 'Run in 32bit mode', Checking this box helped another person who was floggedw with this issue
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I do not have the issue on my MBPro 15" running the same compliment of software and iTunes. Same movie plays fine. On hers, the issue is there. So this has to be software... settings, conflict, something...
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Hey Carolyn,
Worked a treat, de-jaggy video for first time in months!!! Only point of clarification, I manually deleted the Flash plug-in before I uninstalled Flash. Don't know if this was why it worked for me rather than others but hey ...
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Carolyn Samit
Re: Online video playback is severally laggy/choppy on my macbook pro 2011?
Apr 26, 2012 5:07 PM (in response to bcusick)
Hi Ben...
I am quite surprised to be experiencing such issues as lagging on something as simple as a youtube video
Try troubleshooting the Flash plugin required for most YouTube video.
Quit all open browsers. I'm using Safari as a test.
Open System Preferences > Flash Player then select the Storage tab. Click: Delete All
Now uninstall the Flash plugin then reinstall new > Troubleshoot Flash Player | Mac OS
Make sure and uninstall the current plugin first.
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