I've tried avidemux as well as plain old decodebin with no difference.
The problem was also not quicktime specific.  
I've linked a 
http://sites.google.com/site/cis100open/home/finding-nemo-challenge/SMALLaq.avi
video  that I tried, the speedup associated with this video is more than 2x.

Sekou
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