Choppy loop problem

I was midway working on this and playback started to get choppy all of a sudden. Yesterday was fine. It’s just a short loop from a longer video.

MBP M1, not much else going on in terms of software.

Here’s a video of what I’m experiencing: https://www.reddit.com/r/TouchDesigner/comments/1labjgj/choppy_loop_problem/

if you attach your .toe file people can debug your coding