What would I gain by going PRO?

Hi All,
I have an older iMac slot-load 350Mhz G3, which I have QT 7.0.4 installed on. In a previous thread I found out that I could run 7.0 on my machine, just the slow processor could not play back HD vids.
I have also installed "flip4mac" which enables WMV files to be played in QuickTime, sometimes better than using WMV9. Some files I can play back flawlessly, even using the AV control to speed up the movie, but some (those with a high kbit/sec rate) are choppy, dropping many frames, even though the playback rate is a low 30fps or so.
My question is, will buying QT PRO allow me to change the bit rate? The movie in question is a WMV Standard 9, but @ 2135 kbits/sec. In this instance, the WMV9 Application played the vid better than QT did. I'm not even going to attempt to view HD vids on this, but it seems like I could at least view some of the lower quality vids..... any ideas?
Thanks for any help,
Bob

Try NicePlayer, its free, supports full-screen playback (without QuickTime Pro) and playlists.
"NicePlayer
Quite simply, the nicest media player for Mac.
Designed from the ground up from people who like to watch movies, NicePlayer does all of the things that you would expect from a media player, and all of the things you didn't know you needed.
Uses QuickTime. NicePlayer takes advantage of QuickTime and all of the codecs available to it, but without any of the nag screens. That means that you can play anything QuickTime can, and with our plug-in support even more -- including DVDs.
Easy to Use Interface. With an interface that only appears when you need it, NicePlayer makes it more convenient and easier to play all of your media. Double click on the window to change to full screen. Right click to pause. Use the scroll wheel to change the window size.
The Size You Want. Because NicePlayer allows you to use the scroll wheel to adjust playback of your movie to arbitrary sizes, you can easily do your work while watching a movie. You can even adjust the size of the window when playing DVDs -- so when you come across one of those widescreen DVDs encoded in full frame, you can zoom in so that you don't get black bars on all four sides of the movie when watching on your Powerbook or Cinema Display (using NicePlayer's "Fit Width" command also simplfies this more in most cases).
Playlists. Queue up multiple media files and have them play sequentially, automatically.
Plugins. QuickTime doesn't support playing the files you want to watch? NicePlayer has an open plugin architecture to support other media playback engines as well. That means that anyone can create a plugin to embed another media playback engine so NicePlayer can be extended past QuickTime (i.e. DVD Playback, VLC)."
http://niceplayer.indyjt.com/
The XinePlayer plug-in for NicePlayer:
"The Xine-NicePlayer plugin provides playback for many media types -- DivX, XviD, HDTV streams saved to disk, etc. And it performs extremely well! There are a few minor bugs in Xine-NicePlayer, but for the most part, media playback works better than with the built-in QuickTime support."
http://osiris.laya.com/projects/niceplayer/

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