SMPlayer Support Forum

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.

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).

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...