VLC PLayback Lagging

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  1. Tyndale13, Jan 8, 2009

    Tyndale13 macrumors newbie

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    All of a sudden, when I watch movies and recorded shows on my IMAC, I'm experiencing lags and hitches. I am watching the movies from external hardrives but I've been doing this for over a year with never a hitch. Any ideas about what could possibly have changed? It's an anoyance..
     
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  2. iBookG4user, Jan 8, 2009

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    When you're experiencing the lag have you opened up Activity Monitor? If so, what is the CPU usage while it is lagging?
     
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  3. kastenbrust, Jan 8, 2009

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    Apple made an update which turns any external hard drives off if the computer doesnt detect any activity after a certain amount of time, and watching movies/listening to music off one doesnt count as activity. So this should have started after you did an update, anyway to fix this problem do the following:

    Go to system preferances
    Open Energy Saver Options
    Uncheck "Put hard disk to sleep when possible box"
     
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  4. Tyndale13, Jan 9, 2009

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    Thanks!!!

    I made the change so we'll see what happens. How dare Apple adjust my settings!! :)
     
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  5. Tyndale13, Jan 9, 2009

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    Still Lagging

    Idle CPU Usage is about 90%. DO I need to restart ??? Odd. This just started recently out of the blue.
     
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