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 similar), but all in all unsuccessfully. Resetting prefs and removing cache again, same game - 0.9.2 plays every movie choppy and stuttering (even playing a DVD is highly problematic), but 0.8.6i has no problems with the same files. Oh yes, mplayer has no problems playing them smoothly as well. Or QuickTime (with the proper codecs installed) or the OS internal dvd player app. In short: 0.9.2 is unusable for me.
I have a PPC Mac, using Tiger with the latest updates/patches.
Edit: seeing now the problem of a few, to obtain the 0.8.6i release:
In
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 6i/macosx/
one finds
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... owerpc.dmg
which does the trick for my Mac.
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... -intel.dmg
should be fine for those Intels - but i cannot say for sure.