Which still leaves the ability to <i>speed up</i> h.264 / video in general with GPU rendering, which is far more optimized for it than your CPU.  It's not ideal, but it's significantly better than nothing.<p>Granted, it's not "true" h.264 hardware decoding, but it's better than pure-CPU-through-Flash, and as far as I can tell they have yet to take advantage of it, and have been exceptionally late to the game no matter what.