my n900, and possibly everyone who has mplayer installed has the ffmpeg plugin for gstreamer installed, which... drumroll.. allows ffmpeg to offload to hw accelerated gstreamer when it can. so i think ffmpeg is the way to go. (gstreamer-0.10-ffmpeg).

but for the places it can't offload to gstreamer you really really REALLY need frame dropping enabled,which it does really well.

edit: i knew i was out of my depth, it's actually the other way round..


Gstreamer is a multimedia framework which Gnash can use for decoding audio and video. Gstreamer itself cannot decode anything, so it needs some appropriate decoding-plugins to do the work for it. Remember to install them if you use Gnash with Gstreamer enabled. To get the best out of Gnashs gstreamer-parts, it is recommended to install the gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-good and gst-ffmpeg plugins package