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Here's what made Blu-ray playback smooth on my 2012 MacBook Air with Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and VLC 2.0.3: go to Preferences > Show All > Input / Codecs > Demuxers > FFmpeg, scroll about 25% down and set Threads from 0 to 4.

I just wanted to update this thread to say that I've just tried for the first time to use VLC 2.0.3 in Mountain Lion 10.8.2 to watch a Blu-ray movie on my Mac, and it worked very well. I just got a 2x BD-ROM USB drive, and have a 2012 MacBook Air. I followed the instructions from http://vlc-bluray.w...