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I am running VLC .86f on a new 2.8GHZ iMac with 4GB of RAM and the playback of some 1080p video files is choppy. I don't think it is a CPU speed issue because Activity Monitor shows only about 30%-40% usage. It plays fine in MPlayer, but the audio is messed up. Anyone have any tips to make VLC smoot...

I am pretty sure your hardware is too slow. I have a PowerBook G4 667MHz and it will not play 720p video. I get maybe 1 frame every 2 seconds.