My Sony Vaio is several years old. Best PC I've ever bought. 1.5GHz P4, 512 MB RAM, 32MB VRAM, etc, etc. I realize it's an ancient fossil but I had no problems until I made the mistake recently of upgrading to iTunes 7 in order to purchase an old Star Trek episode (format M4V). Now when I play videos on iTunes they are slow, choppy and unwatchable. When I use Quicktime the same thing happens. I have two questions: 1 Can someone give me advice on making iTunes 7 work for videos? It uses up 85-95% of my system resources when the M4V video is playing which is crazy. Are there some settings I could adjust? The bad thing is Quicktime did the same exact thing! Fortunately, iTunes still plays my music fine. 2 Another solution is downloading a codec for M4V or finding another application that can play them. Media PlayerC, VLC Player, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player won't play them and I can't find a codec for M4V anywhere. I'm thinking only iTunes and Quicktime can play M4Vs because Apple wants it that way. I scoured internet message boards and forums, tried some things and non worked. Please help with a codec that will work or an alternative media player.
i had the exact same thing w/ my computer, which i just replaced a few weeks ago. it was 4 years old and had similar specs. that update did the exact same thing to me. ipod videos i could previously watch on my computer became choppy and unwatchable. it must really run the processor hard. my new computer has 2 gigs of ram and an intel core2duo processor thing (dont make fun if i got the terminology wrong - im a luddite) and ipod videos play fine on them now.
This makes me really mad! I guess iTunes is now bloatware. This begs a third question: Is there a way to re-install iTunes 6?
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/itunes605forwindows.html Hopefully, that should work. I haven't tried it before.