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Are you sure its not just buffering at the start of the second file of a stacked movie? The only hi-def stuff I have is ripped by me as a single file so I can't check but xbmc does say "buffering" at the start of it. I'm guessing but it would follow that it was doing that at the start of every file so you would get it mid movie if the movie is in 2 parts
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If you get the buffering message make sure to try playing the file from your local drive...
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Ok, I moved the file to my local HDD and it works, so you telling me that I have to move all files or the movies to my local drive in order to stop that buffering ?
strangly enough it doesn't happen all the time, it happens from time to time. I have a 500gb using firewire and it works flawlessly.
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Check the transfer speed on that drive, etc. Try using a different firewire drive or another firewire port. Buffering means XBMC isn't getting the data fast enough to play seamlessly. My USB 2.0 500GB drive does not give me this buffering message so there shouldn't be any issues playing externally IF the drive is preforming properly.