Also theres a way to "trick" VLC into using our ATI and Nvidia HARDWARE video decoding capabilities. You go into the settings and mess with overlay and decoding options. Google info about VLC and you may find it.

Interesting Note: My WD 74GB Raptor crapped on me so I installed OpenSuSE 11.0. That 6.64GB 1080p file that I needed a multi-threaded FFDShow to play in Windows plays on one core in Linux only using ~80%. Instead of 90% of two cores in Windows, I only need 80% of one core in Linux!!! I'm trying to find out why. This works with any of the players (well the players with codecs, linux codec support sux) in SuSE so I think Linux uses CPU resources more efficiently. Interesting...