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diff --git a/DOCS/man/input.rst b/DOCS/man/input.rst index 612c0cad88..f62bbce24f 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/input.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/input.rst @@ -159,7 +159,9 @@ List of Input Commands Take a single screenshot. <each-frame> Take a screenshot each frame. Issue this command again to stop taking - screenshots. + screenshots. Note that you should disable framedropping when using + this mode - or you might receive duplicate images in cases when a + frame was dropped. ``screenshot_to_file "<filename>" [subtitles|video|window]`` Take a screenshot and save it to a given file. The format of the file will @@ -635,8 +637,12 @@ Property list disabled. ``drop-frame-count`` - Frames dropped because they arrived to late. Unavailable if video - is disabled + Frames dropped because they arrived to late. Doesn't necessarily indicate + actual framedrops, just the number of times the decoder was asked to drop. + Unavailable if video is disabled + +``vo-drop-frame-count`` + Frames dropped by VO (when using ``--framedrop=vo``). ``percent-pos`` (RW) Position in current file (0-100). The advantage over using this instead of diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index 356bd903b3..7839480918 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -430,16 +430,39 @@ Video Do not sleep when outputting video frames. Useful for benchmarks when used with ``--no-audio.`` -``--framedrop=<no|yes>`` - Skip displaying some frames to maintain A/V sync on slow systems. Video - filters are not applied to such frames. For B-frames even decoding is - skipped completely. May produce unwatchably choppy output. - - The ``--vd-lavc-framedrop`` option controls what frames to drop. +``--framedrop=<mode>`` + Skip displaying some frames to maintain A/V sync on slow systems, or + playing high framerate video on video outputs that have an upper framerate + limit. + + The argument selects the drop methods, and can be one of the following: + + <no> + Disable any framedropping (default). + <vo> + Drop late frames on video output. This still decodes and filters all + frames, but doesn't render them on the VO. It tries to query the + display FPS (X11 only, not correct on multi-monitor systems), or + assumes infinite display FPS if that fails. Drops are indicated in + the terminal status line as ``D: `` field. If the decoder is too slow, + in theory all frames would have to be dropped (because all frames are + too late) - to avoid this, frame dropping stops if the effective + framerate is below 10 FPS. + <decoder> + Old, decoder-based framedrop mode. (This is the same as ``--framedrop=yes`` + in mpv 0.5.x and before.) This tells the decoder to skip frames (unless + they are needed to decode future frames). May help with slow systems, + but can produce unwatchably choppy output, or even freeze the display + complete. Not recommended. + The ``--vd-lavc-framedrop`` option controls what frames to drop. + <decoder+vo> + Enable both modes. Not recommended. .. note:: - Practical use of this feature is questionable. Disabled by default. + ``--vo=vdpau`` (also the default VO) always has the ``vo`` framedrop + mode enabled. It doesn't increment the ``D:`` field in the statusline + either. ``--hwdec=<api>`` Specify the hardware video decoding API that should be used if possible. |