From what I read TCPMP was able to play large (high bitrate) files quite well. Whether this was down to the graceful degradation, video scaling, optimised codecs for ARM or support for video acceleration hardware, I don't know.

What might be useful is for people to list what features of TCPMP they are after, then people could have a go at adding them to one of the mplayer frontends.

Likewise it would be useful to see what sorts of videos (and I'm thinking mainly the large xvid/divx that mplayer has some troubles with) TCPMP was able to play without troubles (plus the spec of the machine you're playing on) vs. the performance on an N8x0/880 and we'll see if there is actually a significant difference.

P.S. I lack a machine that TCPMP will run on, so I can't do this myself, sorry.