From 39f4fd0dc7e025af5c653e43dc05e71455d99570 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 00:16:46 +0200 Subject: screenshot: add --screenshot-sw option Probably worthless. As usual, the manpage dumps all the subtle differences due to implementation details on the user. --- DOCS/man/options.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'DOCS') diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst index fd19d3d25c..c5e8aeb5c0 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst @@ -4224,6 +4224,21 @@ Screenshot more CPU time. Note that this also affects the screenshot quality when used with lossy WebP files. The default is 4. +``--screenshot-sw=`` + Whether to use software rendering for screenshots (default: no). + + If set to no, the screenshot will be rendered by the current VO if possible + (only vo_gpu currently). The advantage is that this will (probably) always + show up as in the video window, because the same code is used for rendering. + But since the renderer needs to be reinitialized, this can be slow and + interrupt playback. (Unless the ``window`` mode is used with the + ``screenshot`` command.) + + If set to yes, the software scaler is used to convert the video to RGB (or + whatever the target screenshot requires). In this case, conversion will + run in a separate thread and will probably not interrupt playback. The + software renderer may lack some capabilities, such as HDR rendering. + Software Scaler --------------- -- cgit v1.2.3