I recently upgraded to the Canon 5D Mark II DSLR and couldn't be happier that I did. But one of the first things I noticed with the camera was that the video skipped when I played it on my computer no matter what player I tried. I couldn't figure out what the problem was...

After a little research, I found the answer and it is the best possible answer you could get... the video is too big and too high of a resolution for my computer to actually play.

Great, so what's next???

Convert the 1080 HD video down to a quality that you can play. I use MPEG Streamclip, it's free and simple. I just convert it down to a 780p HD video and it's good to go! No more skipping!