I've been having the problem as well. (Dual 2.3 GHz, 1GB ram) I think Fishmoose is on the right track by suspecting the filesystem. I've noticed the same CPU % drop during pauses which on my box lasts from 1 to 10(!) seconds. Is there any way to use the xvid codec as opposed to ffmpeg? --- An additi...
In reading this and other forums apparently the latest official release of DivX (5.2.1) isn't compatable with Tiger. Some people have suggested installing DivX 6 Beta but that hasn't helped me.
I have the same problems also. I had heard that the DivX 5.2.1 codec was causing problems in Tiger so I removed it. However, that didn't help. Might it be a problem with ffmpeg, the mpeg4 decoder that VLC uses?