hw codecs

1.xine player, mplayer
2.xine has xvmc through which hardware mpeg decoders are accessed, also xine supports via gfx card
3.mplayer also supports xvmc but for nvidia gfx
4.vlc also supports somethings
5.ffmpeg contains a list of codecs
6.gstreamer is a framework

7.not only 1080p but its bit rate also matters in a playback
8.mplayer can use coreavc to decode using cpu h.264
9.apple quick time supports h264
10.linux h264
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9005
11.http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/support-h264-hardware-accelator-support-libavcodec
12.terminologies and interrelations
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=9647
13.new flow
vlc,xine,mplayer--->ffmpeg-->libavcodec-->vaapi-->vpdau-->driver-->hw-->hwcodec
14.http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=131050
15.http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-836517-start-0.html
16.http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/how-to-enable-libvdpau-libva-vaapi-and-mplayer-with-nvidia-driver-855574/
17.on linux 10.10
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/use-mplayer-with-vaapi-support-hardware.html
18.http://www.linux.com/news/software/developer/31582-multicore-video-decoding-with-mplayer-part-2
19.http://superuser.com/questions/109388/how-do-i-get-vdpau-working-with-ubuntu-9-10
20.nvidia gt220 supports vdpau
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?20182-FFmpeg-Gains-VDPAU-MPEG-4-ASP-Acceleration
21,https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115794