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It could be a setting in your external filters or perhaps your configuration .xml is using the wrong filters. Press O during playback to see which filters are being used. And check to see if features such as hardware acceleration are configured correctly.

External and internal filters shouldn't show any significant difference in performance. If anything, the external filters could potentially perform faster.

This is how I have them set up. All of them are being used, except one still has the (i) next to it, which means it's using an internal filter, correct? LAV Splitter Source has the (i) next to it. All the others don't have it. Also, where are the hardware acceleration settings?