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| author | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2014-03-20 22:49:09 +0100 |
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| committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2014-03-30 17:51:28 +0200 |
| commit | 852c924a6061fc71dc6fd874f7ae2ddeea7f128b (patch) | |
| tree | ec6544c4e411c6095dcc46ce860ca81b3ee3ede9 | |
| parent | 1685d198b9f9b2a3edb8d204a6f29f3c827cd599 (diff) | |
| download | mpv-852c924a6061fc71dc6fd874f7ae2ddeea7f128b.tar.bz2 mpv-852c924a6061fc71dc6fd874f7ae2ddeea7f128b.tar.xz | |
manpage: clarify what to pass to --hwdec-codecs option
| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/man/en/options.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/options.rst b/DOCS/man/en/options.rst index bc12d40666..1578f5172f 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/en/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/en/options.rst @@ -1152,7 +1152,9 @@ OPTIONS You can get the list of allowed codecs with ``mpv --vd=help``. Remove the prefix, e.g. instead of ``lavc:h264`` use ``h264``. - By default this is set to ``h264,vc1,wmv3``. + By default this is set to ``h264,vc1,wmv3``. Note that the hardware + acceleration special codecs like ``h264_vdpau`` are not relevant anymore, + and in fact have been removed from Libav in this form. This is usually only needed with broken GPUs, where a codec is reported as supported, but decoding causes more problems than it solves. |