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diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 92a2f2e4ce..7ff8689f13 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -5789,10 +5789,24 @@ Miscellaneous making a some idealized assumptions, which may not always apply in reality. Behavior can depend on the VO and the system's video and audio drivers. Media files must use constant framerate. Section-wise VFR might work as well - with some container formats (but not e.g. mkv). If the sync code detects - severe A/V desync, or the framerate cannot be detected, the player - automatically reverts to ``audio`` mode for some time or permanently. These - modes also require a vsync blocked presentation mode. For OpenGL, this + with some container formats (but not e.g. mkv). + + Under some circumstances, the player automatically reverts to ``audio`` mode + for some time or permanently. This can happen on very low framerate video, + or if the framerate cannot be detected. + + Also in display-sync modes it can happen that interruptions to video + playback (such as toggling fullscreen mode, or simply resizing the window) + will skip the video frames that should have been displayed, while ``audio`` + mode will display them after the renderer has resumed (typically resulting + in a short A/V desync and the video "catching up"). + + Before mpv 0.30.0, there was a fallback to ``audio`` mode on severe A/V + desync. This was changed for the sake of not sporadically stopping. Now, + ``display-desync`` does what it promises and may desync with audio by an + arbitrary amount, until it is manually fixed with a seek. + + These modes also require a vsync blocked presentation mode. For OpenGL, this translates to ``--opengl-swapinterval=1``. For Vulkan, it translates to ``--vulkan-swap-mode=fifo`` (or ``fifo-relaxed``). |