I think the iPlayer app in MythTV or Boxee should let you watch using hardware 
acceleration.

--- On Mon, 10/1/11, Christopher Woods <chris...@infinitus.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Christopher Woods <chris...@infinitus.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...
> To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
> Date: Monday, 10 January, 2011, 13:24
> 
> > It's proably the h264 decoder of the flash player,
> it's quite 
> > buggy and a bit of a cpu hog,
> > 
> > Good news is adobe are making it better all the time,
> so a 
> > lot of the early buggyiness is gone, it's just the cpu
> 
> > concerns that are about,
> 
> Indeed, 10.2 is much better and regular 1080p plays at
> 30fps thanks to the
> NVidia ION GPU acceleration. (I've also tried both the 10.1
> beta and the
> final release as bundled in Chrome). Unfortunately the
> iPlayer web player
> doesn't seem to be presenting the H.264 video in a manner
> in which the ION
> GPU acceleration can be enabled to accelerate the video
> decoding, which
> seems to be the problem here. (given YouTube works
> perfectly playing 1080p
> with GPU acceleration and the iPlayer's 720p overwhelms the
> machine on
> CPU-only decoding).
> 
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