Video Stutter/Sticking - Not Smooth
I bought a brand new 2011 Mac Mini (mid grade, 2.5 i5 with AMD Radeon graphics card) about a week and a half ago. The goal was to hook it up to my 42" plasma HDTV in the living room to watch TV shows, movies, and streaming video. The setup went fine and it loos good....for everything except video. Any video media I play back, mostly purchases from the iTunes store and using iTunes or QuickTime to play back, results in horrible stuttering or sticking of the video. For example, I bought the most recent Star Trek movie that Apple uses as an example on their computers. When I play it back it goes about 15 seconds, then briefly pauses, then goes another 15 seconds, then briefly pauses. This goes on and on, hence what I call "stuttering." Now if I attempt to play back HD video from the Flip Mino HD that I use, the playback is ten times worse! The sturrering occurs regularly instead of every 15 seconds. Now for the kicker....this does not happen on my 4 year old black plastic MacBook. Both are running Lion. So the Mini has tons more horsepower than the old MacBook yet the old MacBook plays video flawlessly while the Mini stutters along. This is very frustrating. I do not expect this from an Apple product and I'm so upset I'll likely return it.
Anyone else have this issue??
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7)