Watching my iTunes videos on a iBook

I recently purchused a iBook. I tranfered some videos from my pc. I tried to watch them but they lag REALLY bad. I'm new to macs. What can I do to fix this?

Other than getting a G4-based iBook or other, faster Mac, sorry, but nothing. A G3 processor just doesn't have the processing power necessary to decode the compression system used on video content from the iTunes Store.

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