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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