In a message dated 11/28/02 9:28:08 PM, kledgister at mac.com writes: << Copy the movie to your hard drive and play it bac - if it's smooth, then the problem is either the speed of the CD ROM or your bitrate is too high. >> Thank you John, Erica, JD--this did the trick and the movie plays fine when copied from the cd back to my hard drive--I can live the that. Thank you...