GPU acceleration with SMplayer in Ubuntu/Linux?

[monogato]

Hi everybody. For me, SMplayer with the lastest version of the Mplayer and the codecs in Ubuntu is by far the best video player. However, I have got a new PC with an ATI Radeon graphic card and it would be very useful the GPU acceleration. This is very easy with VLC media player, but I really prefer SMplayer. So, how can I enable it?

regards!!! Thanks a lot for your help.

[Surkow]

I assume you mean h264 acceleration. Sadly enough I only have experience with VDPAU for Nvidia cards. You'll have to look into XvBA (ATI, but poorly supported) or VAAPI (graphics card agnostic API created by Intel).

[monogato]

It seems better simply the xv driver officially updated by ATI but without GPU acceleration than any other one that enables it, right? So, how does VLC do?

regards!!! For now, I will use SMplayer as long as it plays right all the videos, because the quality should be the same, shouldn´t it?

P.D: Please, correct all my English mistakes, I am still learning...