[Q] CyanogenMod Unsupported Video Format Playback Efficiency

[invinciblegod]

I want to switch to Cyanogenmod but many video formats and containers will no longer work natively. These formats can be played using Rockplayer. My questions are:

Does playback quality suffer?
Does playback efficiency (battery life) suffer?

For instance, I can reliably playback 720p h.264 video format with mp3 in an mkv container on the stock rom. Would it mostly the same on cyanogenmod? Or would it need to use the cpu to decode thereby dropping frames?

 

[physispc]

Dice Player and BSPlayer use the phone's hardware to decode h.264 videos.
I haven't found such a thing for WMV videos.