Quicktime 713 - h264

i recently installed 7.1.3. what happened to the h.264 codec. i thought it was supposed to be improved. the quality is bad. wherever there is gradual shading there is a visible band of color. i would post a link, but last time i did that my post was removed. the last version i had 7.0.4 did a much better job using the h.264. now what uninstall 7.1.3 and reinstall 7.0.4? what kind of solution is that? every other codec exports fine (well except mpeg 4)...even jpeg 2000 looks good. what happened? and is there another fix coming? over a year later and not a solid working application...i'm free if they need me.
it must work better coming out of final cut pro. what i don't get is that it was working okay...albeit a nasty flash every once in awhile, but there wasn't this nasty artifiacting in the shading. so this newer version gets released and a statement of improved h.264...really?!?!?!? i don't see it.

Obviously several updates later...

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