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I have three machines that I want to run VLC on. Is there a benchmark feature that I can use in VLC to see how well each machine is doing a playback?

My idea is to use a standard "stressful" set of test files on each machine. I have an Acer Revo 3610, I have a Dell Alienware m17x, and I have a custom built computer.

At least, is there a way to objectively see if there are any skipped frames? Would I need to open the messages window and set the verbosity to 2 to see any skipped frames?

if there is no benchmark feature, I figure I can use windows built in profiling and performance monitoring, along with the ability to find playback errors (skipped frames), and use that for benchmarking

At verbosity level 1, I am getting some when I play a video on the lowest powered computer while turning off gpu decoding I assume that means that i am getting dropped frames

Yes. You can also open Tools -> Media information and follow the Statistics tab.