Kodi and VLC
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Kodi and VLC
- Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) and VLC are well known free and open-source multimedia players
- Both of them use HW accelerated video decoding and give excellent playback quality
- Both of them compatible with the most popular video formats
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kodi vlc
- Kodi will support HW video acceleration out of the box
- In VLC you need to go to Tools->Preferences->Input and Codecs->Hardware-accelerated decoding
and select "VA-API video decoder via X11" for Intel based devices or "VDPAU video decoder" for AMD based devices