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 select Tools->Preferences->Input and Codecs->Hardware-accelerated decoding->Video Acceleration (VA) API