I use latest version of Xbmc with default skin and I have Nvidia geforce 9600 gt. When I play videos, video is stuttering and Flickering...I have not problems with external players.
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If you can't figure it out yourself then we need need to know what you are connected to, is it a TV? or AVR? or set of speakers direct out from PC? along with a debug log.