http://www.drumbeat.org/content/web-made-movies-building-better-internet-video

But, i could played this video only hogging half of cpu and keeping steady fps in mplayer using directx(overlay) or opengl rendering mode.

Do FX 3.7a4 use new cairo-gl backend?
http://anholt.livejournal.com/42146.html
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FX 3.7a4, WinXP SP3, AthlonXp1600+, Geforce3 Ti200(d×8.0, opengl 1.5.5)

http://localhostr.com/files/69f621/ogl%20Error%20Console.png

One thing I noticed, is that while it’s using 100% CPU, it’s smooth *until* the video controls show up, once they’re being rendered it starts stuttering.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/07/a-closer-look-at-internet-explorer-9-hardware-acceleration-through-flying-images.aspx

It would be interesting to see a comparison against Firefox’s forthcoming Direct2D support, even bearing in mind that a debug build of Firefox wouldn’t necessarily deliver the full performance of a release build.