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author | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2014-03-20 22:49:09 +0100 |
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committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2014-03-20 22:49:09 +0100 |
commit | edf0dda2e4e48205e30ebfb297f5a2059ea98a25 (patch) | |
tree | eba233283b51e375085c773b675939e56ba3a99f /DOCS/man | |
parent | 9be93d6b60bebe6b43687d481957ed78ac25f4c8 (diff) | |
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manpage: clarify what to pass to --hwdec-codecs option
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diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/options.rst b/DOCS/man/en/options.rst index 9a886248c2..3d45040ddf 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/en/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/en/options.rst @@ -1169,7 +1169,9 @@ 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. |