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authorwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2014-03-20 22:49:09 +0100
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manpage: clarify what to pass to --hwdec-codecs option
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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.