VLC has always lagged behind in proper x264 decoding. For most of the 1.x and the first few versions of the 2.x series I had dozens of video files with visual a

VLC has always lagged behind in proper x264 decoding. For most of the 1.x and the first few versions of the 2.x series I had dozens of video files with visual artifacts whilst the newest versions of mplayer at the time did not. I maintain this kind of test suite since I do video production using open source software and I have to make sure it works in all the major video players. VLC is useful and important but it is no where near perfect.