A video processor within a wireless terminal, that includes a video interface that receives incoming video information and that provides outgoing video information, a processing module operably coupled to the video interface, and a video accelerator module and a motion processing co-processor operably coupled to the processing module. The processing of the incoming video information and the outgoing video information is performed by the combination of the processing module, co-processor and the video accelerator module. Compute intensive operations may be offloaded from the processing module onto the video accelerator to improve overall system efficiency.