joppu, i find your hate of VLC and overall negativity on these boards in every topic funny to say, at least, sad as well. Why? Why so serious? Why the negativity? VLC is the best "out of the box" player out there (media player classic is ok too though). I really dont understand your problems. Pixelation/artifacts can happen even on a quad-core if the file is badly encoded or is not encoded in the "common" way. And mind I say it happens only with MKV files, because they are simply more advanced with more features with a wider range of algorhytm possibilities. It happens, its normal, nothing is perfect, ever, face it, open your eyes, stick your head out of the sand, brother. If you dont like VLC, then dont use it, dont reply to these topics. Easy as that. Your attitude "i know best" is getting old.