Method for playing multimedia, and a terminal device

The present invention discloses a method for playing multimedia, and a terminal apparatus, which belongs to the field of computer technology. Said method comprising: multimedia files are not recognized by the graphics processor GPU format into a format recognizable by the GPU, the audio format is a coding format and a file format in one or two; after transcoding sending the multimedia files to the GPU, the GPU playing the multimedia file. When the present invention solves the multimedia file format is not recognized GPU, GPU can not play the multimedia file problems, achieve the effect of expansion of the scope of the GPU can play multimedia files.