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author | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2014-11-12 17:47:09 +0100 |
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committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2014-11-12 19:30:58 +0100 |
commit | b244d5d8172e753b0ad7c628c74c46b665e47c2e (patch) | |
tree | f5226baeda07e50335fb93e0e093b655bb16cce0 | |
parent | a9ece6371f7b19b3d42cd41da043e8ac575cd898 (diff) | |
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manpage: adjust --hwdec docs
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diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 1e5ae746ca..8cd30d7fcf 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -508,12 +508,14 @@ Video ``auto`` tries to automatically enable hardware decoding using the first available method. This still depends what VO you are using. For example, - if you are not using ``--vo=vdpau``, vdpau decoding will never be enabled. - Also note that if the first found method doesn't actually work, it will - always fall back to software decoding, instead of trying the next method. - - The ``vaapi-copy`` function allows you to use vaapi with any VO. Because - this copies the decoded video back to system RAM, it's quite inefficient. + if you are not using ``--vo=vdpau`` or ``--vo=opengl``, vdpau decoding will + never be enabled. Also note that if the first found method doesn't actually + work, it will always fall back to software decoding, instead of trying the + next method (might matter on some Linux systems). + + The ``vaapi-copy`` mode allows you to use vaapi with any VO. Because + this copies the decoded video back to system RAM, it's likely less efficient + than the ``vaapi`` mode. .. note:: |