So I have a specific example, in fact I have two, of where 8.6i is better than 9.x version. In playback of h.264 files on an older system, the systems specs are as follows: cpu: 1.8 ghz Athlon XP Memory: 1 gig 333 mhz ram Video card: 9500 ATI series 128mb on card chipset : nforce 2 (the really good ...