mpv should be configured with hwdec=yes or hwdec=auto-safe rather than hwdec=vaapi
Bug #2063482 reported by
Philip Langdale
This bug affects 1 person
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mpv (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
(mpv dev here)
mpv has long recommended that users who want hardware decoding start by using `hwdec=auto-safe`. This goes through a set of hwdecs that we consider to be safe, and it will keep trying if the first one doesn't work. So we recommend that Ubuntu uses `hwdec=auto-safe` or `hwdec=yes` (both do the same thing now) in the config file vs `hwdec=vaapi`. This will produce better results on nvidia hardware and also enable the fallback logic which will generally increase the chances of successfully enabling hardware decoding.
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In fact just putting `hwdec` by itself into the config file implies `hwdec=yes` so that's even more concise.