Videos from Canon 5D Mark II Choppy

Yes, I see that another user asked a similar question today--but my circumstances are different.
The HD videos from my Canon 5D M2 come out choppy on my Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 Tower, 6 gigs of RAM, using system 10.5.8 and Quicktime 7.6.6 (1632). Video Card is ATI Radeon 9650, running a LaCie 324 at 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz, 32 Bit color.
They look fine on my 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Laptop, same system and Quicktime, 3 gigs of RAM, 17-inch at 1920 x 1200, GeForce 8600 GT.
In information panel, both show the same Codec: H.264 Integer (Little Endian), Dimensions: 1920 x 1080, total bit rate: 45,096.
Can anyone please say if I can do anything to improve the performance of my PowerPC tower with these videos? Thank you for your consideration and expertise!
Ancillary question: would my laptop with my LaCie 324 monitor give me enough power to edit a documentary made with same Canon 5D M2?
(The other guy who posted earlier with a similar issue said he's thinking of buying the same card as I have--once I hear some replies re: my same issue I'll contact him, to be sure).

Hi Francis, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I can't answer your question directly, but I'd try Big Endian for best PPC performance...
Intel x86 processors store a two-byte integer with the least significant byte first, followed by the most significant byte. This is called little-endian byte ordering. Other CPUs, such as the PowerPC CPU, store a two-byte integer with its most significant byte first, followed by its least significant byte. This is called big-endian byte ordering. Most of the time the endian format of your computer can be safely ignored, but in certain circumstances it becomes critically important.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/C FMemoryMgmt/Concepts/ByteOrdering.html

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