The bug is with Quicktime, not H.264. It's specific to the Quicktime implementation of Quicktime, not the H.264 standard. Quicktime is not just a player.
Nobody ever said the bug makes the video look horrible, it's a subtle shift, not catastrophic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime
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