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yeah, sort of fixed in 0.9.3. Still slower than 0.8.6i. And overall, "new" vlc isn't worth the speed decrease. In case QT plus Perian doesn't do the trick, pure MPlayer (via MacPorts) will do in the future - more stable than vlc 0.8.6i anyway, as far as i have noticed.

Registered here only to report the same: 0.9.2 is terribly slow compared to 0.8.6i. Stuttering and all. At first there was no picture at all, but that was solved by removing the cache. I went through the prefs (also the more hidden ones) to solve the slowdown as well (altering buffer/cache size and ...