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Doesn't work on all systems, I presume. Better to default to something that definitely works everywhere.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/a3baf94ab9f3b43a8027d...

Would be appropriate to have true/false/auto instead of auto==true though, so auto wouldn't use it unless it confirmed to be working.



Still, isn't this bizarre? Over the last couple of decades using Windows and macOS across many machines, I've encountered one time I had to mess with settings like this. That's the time I temporarily disabled hw accel in chrome so I could screenshare and watch a show with someone.

Meanwhile on Linux you gotta configure every app one at a time because sane defaults and auto configuration weren't invented here.




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