VLC PLayback Lagging

[Tyndale13]

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..

 

[iBookG4user]

When you're experiencing the lag have you opened up Activity Monitor? If so, what is the CPU usage while it is lagging?

 

[kastenbrust]

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..

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"

 

[Tyndale13]

Thanks!!!

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"

I made the change so we'll see what happens. How dare Apple adjust my settings!!

 

[Tyndale13]

Still Lagging

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