it might have some software tweaks for arm, and it does indeed perform better than e.d. mplayer, but i think the only actual hardware acceleration is xv where it gets each frame displayed by hw acceleration , but the hard part is constructing each frame , which it still only does via software. e.d. mplayer can also take advantage of xv when launched via debbie, but because it's lacking the software tweaks in ffmpeg decoding it doesn't perform as well.

but you've given me an idea for a killer totem set up: we now have gst hardware acceleration , so if we can use the optimised ffmpeg libraries and the gst-ffmpeg plugin we can have as good a media player backend as anything on maemo.

actually i seem to remember a 'maemo' option in the configure options when compiling ffmpeg for e.d. a while back, so it may be as easy as selecting that and compiling as normal.

stay tooned...