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I'm experiencing the same issues, and followed all the above instructions including the one that is now marked as not solving the problem, and I'm still getting the video skips in VLC. I would really like to keep using VLC, but if a video-playing program can't play video at high quality I simply can...

Thanks for the concern colt, I promise to necro this post as soon as I get back to college and tell you how well the fixes worked. You've been more helpful than anyone.

Thanks for the idea, colt45. Unfortunately I'm on winter break now and my linux box is still at college. When I get back, I'll be sure to post if any of these solutions help me out. Thanks.

I experienced no CPU peaking or even any high usage, usually hovering between 25-35%. However, after some extensive trial and error, I found out that it seems to be something to do with the sound drivers. For instance, I started with a clean reboot and opened a HD video, and had no skipping. Then, i...

Is there any more information I could provide, a general direction for more specific support, maybe? I'm really at a loss for how to solve this issue and I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.

I've had this problem for a while, and found a workaround for a while, which involved setting the video output to X11 output and then killing compiz. However, with the most recent updates to compiz, it seems this no longer works. I would really like to get video playback that doesn't skip in compiz,...