[slicemaster]

Im subscribed to the ARM-NETBOOK Rhombus mailing list, they mostly talk of the Mele A1000 / A2000

it has been suggested that the Mali GPU does not perform the actual video decoding and there is a separate Video Processing Unit on the device's board.

I wonder how this will change the outlook for getting XBMC on this family of devices.........

won't change the outlook anymore than the outlook for any other arm device that's being worked on...pandaboard, raspberry pi, beagleboard, etc...they all have their own way of doing the video decoding... why would it be any different for the A10?