video hitch when laptop increases it's CPU speed

[betwixt]

Hi there!

VLC plays movies fine, except that they show a hitch every now and then when my laptop increases it's cpu speed (when I hear the laptop FAN go faster.) It seems to stop at these moments for a few seconds in which it skips quite some frames. Audio continues normally and after these skipped frames, video resumes... It's actually quite annoying.
Media player classic seems to have the same problem. Windows Media Player doesn't...

I have an Acer laptop with a Core 2 Duo processor. Hope you guys can give me some advice...

Regards,
DM

[betwixt]

Anyone??

[VLC_help]

Does any software/process steal CPU time when that hitch hits?

[betwixt]

Thanks for your reply.

There's no other software stealing CPU time when it happens. At least not that I know of. I'm actually quite picky with my running processes, so I keep those at a minimum.. I've also watched the processes in Task Manager while these moments occur.

Regards,
DM

[VLC_help]

What messages VLCs View -> Messages gives when that happens?