New MBP's: H.264 acceleration?

So the new MBPs have this spiffy nVidia card (8600M GT) that does full H.264 decode acceleration in hardware. Does anybody know if this hardware is supported in OS X at all? Playing 1080P trailers from apple.com/trailers in quicktime player seems to still use considerable CPU, and I see the same results when playing them in mplayer or vlc (except mplayer and vlc do a better job of keeping audio in sync)...
MacBook Pro 2.2GHz LED   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

H.264 is much slower codec than many other ones.
And, at those giant frame sizes, it wouldn't
surprise me to see such long encode times.
More than six hours ago, I took four short (six minutes or so each) Flash video files to Compressor 3 and sent this batch to transcode to H.264. The first clip went off merrily and the Activity Monitor showed 145% activity of the CPU. It was done in 13 minutes, the second ckip took 14 minutes and the remaining two clips are still there with very little progress in transcoding. The Activity Monitor shows from five to 10 per cent Compressor usage of the CPU.
This is definitely not due to "giant frame sizes". Somewhere along the way Compressor 3 slowed down dramatically.

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