having trouble with vidios not playing smoothly...PLZ HELP

[nightwolf32]

ive never used a mac before,and id heard they are good,but are super different from windows,so i got my hands on a 2004 ibook just to test the waters. i like the interface better and the looks and keyboard.im not much of a computer wis tho and youtube vidios are really laggy and jumpy. i have no clue what to download to make it better or how to.from what im told mac has its own versions for everything?????i tryed adobe (as you would on windows) but it dosnt seem to download. just makes a file that sais adobe.plz help. if you know anything about macs and can direct me in the wright direction i would be so grate full.

[poisondeathray]

Unless the videos are low quality and low definition, any hardware from 2004 is probably too old to play any videos without dropping frames. Certainly too old/slow to play hd video. You can use mediainfo mac to see what kind of video it is

You might try mplayer osx extended to see if it plays any smoother , or vlc (but it's not very good on mac)

[nightwolf32]

unfortunatly none of theses seem to help,if i was to get more memory would that affect anything?

[poisondeathray]

Probably not, memory isn't the bottleneck, CPU is

upgrade to an imac (or any hardware) from this decade