When I play video files from my external hard disk playback is choppy using VLC. Other players such as real player can play the files with no problem. Also, the same files play without the problem using VLC if I copy them across to my internal hard disk. Any suggestions?
I have a macbook 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X 10.4.11. The external disk is NTFS SATA connected through USB. I use MacFUSE with the NTFS-3G plugin to read/write to the disk but I don't think this is involved in the problem as all disk operations work fine for everything else and other players work ok.