Originally Posted by
Grievuuz
If you wrote directly to the external HDD while playing, the video will be choppy, regardless of you playing the videos from your internal or external HDD. That's what people have been trying to tell you.
If you write to your internal HDD first, then transfer the video to your external HDD, and the problem persists, that means the USB 2.0 isn't fast enough to stream your videos.
Now if your problem is that any kind of video that comes into contact with your external HDD, regardless of being written to your internal first, then transferred back onto your internal after being stored on your external, and played back then is still choppy, something's wrong with your external HDD. I'm willing to bet that this isn't the case though.
Write to your internal, transfer to your external and back to your internal when you wish to play them.
Problem should be solved.
Just like everyone else tried to tell you...
All the footage you wrote directly to your external HDD is lost. Sorry.