VLC freezes when playing videos on external disk

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djc_nl

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Hey guys,

i tried playing a 700 MB XVID movie with VLC on my newly bought macbook, and it pretty much froze/stopped responding..

the xvid movie was located on a usb stick.

after i tried 3423423 things to get vlc to respond, i gave up and forced a shutdown :(

after i rebooted it , i tried playing it with itunes (while the movie was still on the stick) and it worked, only now it didnt have sound...

so i copied the movie on the HDD of the macbook and tried again with VLC, then it worked fine..

what caused this problem? VLC? or is my macbook just unstable and should i return it..?

im very excited about having my first mac and all, but im just noticing so many stuff thats wrong with, even my windows desktop works smoother..and i only bought this macbook last week

tnx for any replies
 
I'd say that you're running into a limitation with your memory stick. Those things are meant for documents, not playing movies.. Does it work on any other machines?
 
the movie played fine on my windows pc, on the stick..

i fixed the iTtunes no-sound problem by installing the AC3 codec :)

thanks:)
 
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