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even when VIDEO_TS is played from hard drive?

Yep. Exact same warning messages as others have posted.

Summary:
-DirectX: starves on pretty much any content I can find to throw at it
-OpenGL: only seems to starve on DVD content (whether played from a disk or from a decrypted .VOB file)

...a few things to add:
-Enabling/disabling audio doesn't fix things
-Even switching to OpenGL, DVD playback still hitches. DivX/XVid/etc. does not.

I have the exact same problem HOWEVER ...switching to OpenGL output fixes things. Note that this is an issue ONLY when playing video - when playing an mp3 or something, there is never any hitching. ATI Radeon 4870 Latest drivers i7 920 I strongly suspect that there's something wonky with the ATI dri...