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Is your CPU getting pegged while playing these video clips??

I've noticed my CPU load is bigger with 2.0.2 than 1.1.11 perhaps VLC is intentionally dropping frames to compensate.

Richard S.

Thanks for the reply.

No. CPU usage stays around 50%.

OK, let me start by saying what I'm working with. It's an old computer: Athlon XP on 1.9 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM and MSI FX5600 128 MB graphics card. Now, even though this is an old computer I never had any issues playing files until I upgraded from 1.x version (can't remember which it was exactly) to the n...