the problem is that everytime a video sequence shows up the game stutters and the video is very choppy. is there a patch for this,

I know the problem isn't my cdrom, as it's a dvd player, and replaced it recently (the old one had the same issues), I got the game used as a gift and it had a few scratches, I attributed the stutter to this, but when I recently got the broodwar expansion new the problem was present in the broodwar videos as well.

Could it be your video card. Maybe you have to download some new drivers because I had a similar problem with another game where whenever an FMV sequence came on the game froze. I downloaded new drivers and it fixed it right up.

I'm not sure, I got all new drivers when i installed diablo 2, and that works fine, and even before I started running win2k (win 98 before) I had the stutter problem.

i seem to have the same problem! except my CD player is a True-X drive (i think)
it supposedly reads all of the lines at once instead of moving the laser around.

I think the main problem with it is that it tries to use power saving too often, shutting itself off for a minute whilst it could have been accessing the info full time and avoiding the time between for speeding back up again.

i duno how to fix it unfortunatly(
yours do that too maybe?

*nods* I'm pretty sure that could be the problem, but I don't know how to fiddle with the read ahead options in win2k, so i can't test it...

Isn't there a way to copy the movie files to the HD? A larger install?

When it happens to me (and it happens to my Starcraft), I let the movie play once. It stutters, but when I play it the second time, it plays as it should. I guess it is copied to HD.