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authordec05eba <dec05eba@protonmail.com>2024-02-15 18:24:10 +0100
committerdec05eba <dec05eba@protonmail.com>2024-02-15 18:24:10 +0100
commit6f1caab3451ab135ab0653e41c018dd9c4dcc0d0 (patch)
tree82399f39a6c6e6d733ae8945090ccc19c97243bf
parent2ed90a318c96ca5f229329a9513f0e9204963d21 (diff)
Errmsg on manJARo to use flatpak instead
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index 3bb9eec..0d35003 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -2122,10 +2122,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
" then make sure you have installed the GPU specific vaapi packages.\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. Also make sure 'ffmpeg -h encoder=h264_vaapi' doesn't return any error.\n"
- " vainfo is part of libva-utils.\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 try using the flatpak version of GPU Screen Recorder as well and make sure you have mesa-extra freedesktop runtime installed, which can be installed with this command:\n"
+ " You can alternatively use the flatpak version of 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);
_exit(2);
}