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The official list of changes of the 10.5.5 update contains the following in the "General" section: addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air. Unfortunately it seems that something got broken in this "fix". My VLC player started to produce lags/delays/hangs during playback of movies (it's happening independently of the movie's format/encoding). I tried to play with the File access module's cache size, but it didn't fix it (since the problem lies deeper). Quicktime works though so I'm not left completely in the cold. I tried to find some info on this issue with Google, but no similiar reports turned up yet. I also tried to upgrade VLC from 0.8.6i to the current latest version (0.9.2), but that didn't help either. Hopefully Apple's going to fix this soon.