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kasper93 commented Apr 29, 2026 •
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Disclaimer, this is vibe coded. I have put my insight on the topic, but it was generated by LLM. As this is mostly trivial plumbing code.

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Samillion commented Apr 29, 2026 •
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Will this work with conditional profiles at runtime? I've been trying to find a solid way to use software render/decode only for images. (especially in a mixed playlist with videos and images, switching back and forth)

Sorry if this question is out of scope for this PR.

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kasper93 commented Apr 29, 2026

Yes, the idea is that it would be changeable at runtime. Same as other gpu-* options. It would reinitialize whole window though.

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guidocella commented Apr 29, 2026

Will this work with conditional profiles at runtime? I've been trying to find a solid way to use software render/decode only for images. (especially in a mixed playlist with videos and images, switching back and forth)

Sorry if this question is out of scope for this PR.

Are you sure you want software rendering for images and not just decoding? gpu-next is noticeably faster at panning large images (within the max GPU texture size).

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Samillion commented Apr 29, 2026

Are you sure you want software rendering for images and not just decoding? gpu-next is noticeably faster at panning large images (within the max GPU texture size).

Good point.

Honestly, I've been tinkering over and over, while going through the PhD thesis that is mpv manual but still not able to come up with an overall satisfactory behavior.

Would be awesome if there was a guide for image viewing which includes decoding/rendering pointers to help puny minds like mine.

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guidocella commented Apr 29, 2026

Would be awesome if there was a guide for image viewing which includes decoding/rendering pointers to help puny minds like mine.

#15346 would add that. For decoding we just need an option to disable it on images.

guidocella added a commit to guidocella/mpv that referenced this pull request May 11, 2026
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vd_lavc: add --hwdec-skip-images
259374b 
Allows skipping hardware decoding for images, defaulting to yes.

Requested in mpv-player#14062,
mpv-player#17838 (comment),
and needed to display tile grid heif and avif images
(mpv-player#17738 (comment)).
guidocella added a commit to guidocella/mpv that referenced this pull request May 11, 2026
@guidocella
vd_lavc: add --hwdec-decode-images
28ae668 
Allows skipping hardware decoding for images, defaulting to no.

Requested in mpv-player#14062,
mpv-player#17838 (comment),
and needed to display tile grid heif and avif images
(mpv-player#17738 (comment)).
@guidocella guidocella mentioned this pull request May 11, 2026
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guidocella added a commit to guidocella/mpv that referenced this pull request May 13, 2026
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vd_lavc: add --hwdec-decode-images
8a846f7 
Allows skipping hardware decoding for images, defaulting to no.

Requested in mpv-player#14062 and
mpv-player#17838 (comment).
guidocella added a commit to guidocella/mpv that referenced this pull request May 13, 2026
@guidocella
vd_lavc: add --hwdec-decode-images
d01312e 
Allows skipping hardware decoding for images, defaulting to no.

Requested in mpv-player#14062 and
mpv-player#17838 (comment).
guidocella added a commit to guidocella/mpv that referenced this pull request May 13, 2026
@guidocella
vd_lavc: add --hwdec-decode-images
44e777f 
Allows skipping hardware decoding for images, defaulting to no.

Requested in mpv-player#14062 and
mpv-player#17838 (comment).
guidocella added a commit to guidocella/mpv that referenced this pull request May 13, 2026
@guidocella
vd_lavc: add --hwdec-decode-images
6f86754 
Allows skipping hardware decoding for images, defaulting to no.

Requested in mpv-player#14062 and
mpv-player#17838 (comment).
guidocella added a commit to guidocella/mpv that referenced this pull request May 13, 2026
@guidocella
vd_lavc: add --hwdec-decode-images
654ad31 
Allows skipping hardware decoding for images, defaulting to no.

Requested in mpv-player#14062 and
mpv-player#17838 (comment).
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