Changes
Outdated. See [[Intel: Installing Linux Mint 19]]
== Prepare installation media ==
* A USB DVD-ROM drive or a USB Flash drive of at least 2GB should be used as installation media
* Download [http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=160 204 Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" - MATE (64-bit)"] or [http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=158 Linux Mint 17 3 "QianaRosa" - Cinnamon (64-bit)"]
* For installation with a USB DVD-ROM - flash the downloaded image directly onto a DVD
* For installation with a USB Flash drive, please follow [http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/744 How to install Linux Mint via USB] tutorial
* Login using previously selected username and password.
== XBMC Kodi and VLC ==* Kodi (formerly known as XBMC ) and VLC are well known free and open-source multimedia players* Both of them use GPU accelerated video decoding and give exellent 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 xbmc kodi vlc vainfo i965-va-driver* XBMC Kodi will support GPU accelerated video decoding out of the box
* In VLC you need to check Tools->Preferences->Input and Codecs->Use GPU accelerated decoding checkbox to take advantage of GPU accelerated video decoding
