From d53fcfcf6ef5a026c66f21b6b48e7420451f2a4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dec05eba Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 12:14:06 +0200 Subject: Update error message --- src/main.cpp | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/main.cpp') 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); } -- cgit v1.2.3