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| -rw-r--r-- | src/main.cpp | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp index f1d3bcf..2c73cb5 100644 --- a/src/main.cpp +++ b/src/main.cpp @@ -1577,7 +1577,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) { } if(!video_codec_f) { - fprintf(stderr, "Error: your gpu does not support '%s' video codec\n", video_codec == VideoCodec::H264 ? "h264" : "h265"); + const char *video_codec_name = video_codec == VideoCodec::H264 ? "h264" : "h265"; + 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 it's 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.\n" + " You can test this by running 'vainfo | grep VAEntrypointEncSlice' to see if it matches any H264/HEVC profile. vainfo is part of libva-utils.\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.\n", video_codec_name, video_codec_name, video_codec_name); exit(2); } |