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@@ -26,6 +26,21 @@ variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. Releases can be found on the [release list][releases]. +## System requirements + +- A not too ancient Linux, or Windows Vista or later, or OSX 10.8 or later. +- A somewhat capable CPU. Hardware decoding might sometimes help if the CPU + is too slow to decode video realtime, but must be explicitly enabled with + the `--hwdec` option. On Windows, a CPU with SSE4 instruction set is required + to get decent hardware decoding performance. +- A not too crappy GPU. mpv is not intended to be used with bad GPUs. There are + many caveats with drivers or system compositors causing tearing, stutter, + etc. On Windows, you might want to make sure the graphics drivers are + current, especially OpenGL. In some cases, ancient fallback video output + methods can help (such as `--vo=xv` on Linux), but this use is not + recommended or supported. + + ## Downloads @@ -103,6 +118,7 @@ OSX. If you want to build a Windows binary, you either have to use MSYS2 and MinGW, or cross-compile from Linux with MinGW. See [Windows compilation][windows_compilation]. + ## FFmpeg vs. Libav |