[sdsnyr94]

So raspbmc final is good, but all openelec builds are bad?
That's surprising as firmware, kernel version (albeit with some different build options) and xbmc version are all the same.

Possibly a kernel config option, or some setup option (guires, cachemembuffer size, or gpu_mem) or swap.
Do you have a 256 or 512M board?

I have a 256Mb board. I only tried running a video through Raspbmc once... and it was successful. I then wiped out because I saw a post by Rbej about his build including the 128Mb swap file, so I figured I would test it.

All of the movies do play flawlessly on my Atom 230 ION board, so I know that the videos are not an issue.