The ATI stuff is a hardware assist mecanism, it's doesn't do the entire decoding, it does HW IDCT and motion compensation stuff afaik, or that sort of thing. Anyway, we don't currently have specs on how to use it. ATI does provide a binary lib for x86 that can be used in linux, I think, but not for ppc (though I suppose I might be able to get them to build an unofficial one ... maybe worth asking), but I don't know if we have players capable of using it.
yes do, ill send you some form of gift/hero worship item j/k. nah if you could hook that up it would be fantastic once there is some (even binary) support, then mplayer or xine or whatever can be modified. Dean