Videos and video podcasts won't play in iTunes

When ever I try to play a movie from either a podcast or a TV show, it will play about 1 second, stall, the "beach-ball" appears, the audio plays for that one second of video, then repeats. I am running a G3 iMac but before I updated to 10.4 (had 10.2) and videos played normally. Just wondering if there was any way to fix it.
(On a side note, after I updated OS X, online quicktime movies play the same way)

Andrew, have you tried re-installing QuickTime? That might fix it. Download it from Apple:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

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