Software and hardware-decoding general multi-media playing equipment and playing method thereof

The invention discloses software and hardware-decoding general multi-media playing equipment, which comprises a multi-media information acquisition device, a multi-media processing device and a multi-media display device. The general multi-media playing equipment is characterized in that: the multi-media processing device comprises a file analyzing module for analyzing multi-media information according to the types of multi-media files, a decoding module for decoding analyzed multi-media audio/video steaming information and an output module for receiving the multi-media information decoded by the decoding module and outputting the multi-media information to the multi-media display device for displaying. The general multi-media playing equipment can utilize processing capacity of a hardware platform to a maximum degree and improve the processing capacity of multi-media.