Quicktime Lag

Have you tried using VLC? It is the only media app that I use, and I love it I also have minor lag with some vids using Quicktime, but VLC runs all media perfectly. Plus it is free and available for ANY platform. Give it a try: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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When I hear someone mention "videos", I tend to ask just how do you run them? Off the HD itself or off the optical?

If playing the file off the optical, that indeed can cause lags. If running off the HD I wonder about the HD having too small of a cache. The more common 2MB cache seems somewhat margional for Mac OS 10 to handle some video content. Of course there is other hardware bottlenecks such as the G3 processor and video RAM, but not much can be done in those departments.

You mentioned having better than 14GB available you should be good to go there.

...Ron

What is the quality of the video you are trying to play? On my iBook (G3, 800mhz 640 RAM) anything that is really high quality will lag, no matter what player I use. I think its because G3 processors are not too good at playing high end video.