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Ok, since my last post VLC started working fine with the external hard drive so that isn't the issue either. It started again today and I just wanted to play a clip from my laptop and it's lagging up to 3 minutes. The only thing I can put this problem down to is the subtle magnetic variations that o...

Hi. I'm running Windows 8, 64-bit with 8Gb of RAM and have found the long startup time only happens when I plug in my external 3TB drive (USB3) which has only video files of various type - .avi, .mkv etc (I use Songbird for music, kept on another drive). Changing the caching and subtitles options do...