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diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/options.rst b/DOCS/man/en/options.rst index efe18f9eab..962f7c9019 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/en/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/en/options.rst @@ -1135,12 +1135,20 @@ OPTIONS 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. + .. note:: + + When using this switch, hardware decoding is still only done for some + codecs. See ``--hwdec-codecs`` to enable hardware decoding for more + codecs. + ``--hwdec-codecs=<codec1,codec2,...|all>`` - Allow hardware decoding for a given list of codecs only. The default is the - special value ``all``, which always allows all codecs. + Allow hardware decoding for a given list of codecs only. The special value + ``all`` always allows all codecs. + + By default this is set to ``h264,vc1,wmv3``. - This is usually only needed with broken GPUs, where fallback on software - decoding does not work properly. + This is usually only needed with broken GPUs, where a codec is reported + as supported, but decoding causes more problems than it solves. .. admonition:: Example |