From 48f601ae9e3e86b3d13e294e3f3335a7ae24a743 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:01:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] manpage: discourage vo_vaapi further I don't know what's this comment about hardware decoding. Possibly it was written before vo_opengl had vaapi decoding support. --- DOCS/man/vo.rst | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/DOCS/man/vo.rst b/DOCS/man/vo.rst index 6ff4b42604..c60dd3feb8 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/vo.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/vo.rst @@ -323,9 +323,8 @@ Available video output drivers are: ``vaapi`` Intel VA API video output driver with support for hardware decoding. Note - that there is absolutely no reason to use this, other than wanting to use - hardware decoding to save power on laptops, or possibly preventing video - tearing with some setups. + that there is absolutely no reason to use this, other than compatibility. + This is low quality, and has issues with OSD. .. note:: This driver is for compatibility with crappy systems. You can use vaapi hardware decoding with ``--vo=opengl`` too.