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authordec05eba <dec05eba@protonmail.com>2024-07-05 12:14:06 +0200
committerdec05eba <dec05eba@protonmail.com>2024-07-05 12:14:06 +0200
commitd53fcfcf6ef5a026c66f21b6b48e7420451f2a4d (patch)
treee288ae85589f5e1d8198cca100bebe4518884fe2
parent6c5acf2da680525a536b5fb4576bd1a06e6c7505 (diff)
Update error message
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index 18a810a..d044f7e 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -2429,14 +2429,15 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
}
fprintf(stderr, "Error: your gpu does not support '%s' video codec. If you are sure that your gpu does support '%s' video encoding and you are using an AMD/Intel GPU,\n"
- " then make sure you have installed the GPU specific vaapi packages (intel-media-driver, libva-intel-driver or libva-mesa-driver).\n"
+ " then make sure you have installed the GPU specific vaapi packages (intel-media-driver, libva-intel-driver, libva-mesa-driver and linux-firmware).\n"
" It's also possible that your distro has disabled hardware accelerated video encoding for '%s' video codec.\n"
" This may be the case on corporate distros such as Manjaro, Fedora or OpenSUSE.\n"
" You can test this by running 'vainfo | grep VAEntrypointEncSlice' to see if it matches any H264/HEVC profile.\n"
" On such distros, you need to manually install mesa from source to enable H264/HEVC hardware acceleration, or use a more user friendly distro. Alternatively record with AV1 if supported by your GPU.\n"
" You can alternatively use the flatpak version of GPU Screen Recorder (https://flathub.org/apps/com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder) which bypasses system issues with patented H264/HEVC codecs.\n"
" Make sure you have mesa-extra freedesktop runtime installed when using the flatpak (this should be the default), which can be installed with this command:\n"
- " flatpak install --system org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//23.08-extra", video_codec_name, video_codec_name, video_codec_name);
+ " flatpak install --system org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//23.08-extra\n"
+ " If your GPU doesn't support hardware accelerated video encoding then you can use '-encoder cpu' option to encode with your cpu instead.\n", video_codec_name, video_codec_name, video_codec_name);
_exit(2);
}