I am not of course Jason Carr. i had a pretty powerful PC, i thought...but in older versions i could not use VLC, for whatever the reason was, it didnt like my system at all. So i used WMP it worked flawlessly for me, with the side effects of adjusting volumes and such in bigbox made no difference. (they only work in VLC). I know have the new updated VLC, and the playback is so much better.