On Sep 14, 2005, at 11:39 AM, keith_w wrote: > Okay, thanks. > To me, that sounds like something is certainly inadequate ~ not up to > the task given it. > What might that be? > > keith > Could be: connection speed, disc access speed. or even disc fragmentation , but it's just as likely that the problem is the other end, a slow server, or the encoding itself. I sometimes see this with SOME videos at the iTunes music store, and in QuickTime it is really easy to see the buffering running ahead of the playback and how it gets bad when they get close to one another.