Both Mozilla and Google funded work to implement hardware-accelerated Theora on mobile devices[1][2]. While I don't know of any similar efforts for VP8 yet, I'

Both Mozilla and Google funded work to implement hardware-accelerated Theora on mobile devices[1][2]. While I don't know of any similar efforts for VP8 yet, I'd guess that it is inevitable. [1]: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/04/interesting-times-for-video-on-web.html http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/04/interesting-ti... [2]: http://blog.mjg.im/2010/04/16/theora-on-n900.html http://blog.mjg.im/2010/04/16/theora-on-n900.html