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authorwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2014-01-07 17:14:05 +0100
committerwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2014-01-07 17:14:05 +0100
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manpage: mention how to get a list of codecs for use with --hwdec-codecs
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@@ -1142,6 +1142,9 @@ OPTIONS
Allow hardware decoding for a given list of codecs only. The special value
``all`` always allows all codecs.
+ 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``.
This is usually only needed with broken GPUs, where a codec is reported