[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffmpeg_opt: Add -hwaccels option that lists all supported hwaccels

[Timothy Gu]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 08:28:43PM -0400, Ganesh Ajjanagadde wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Timothy Gu <timothygu99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > cmdutils.c is shared for all ff* programs. -hwaccel is only supported in
> > ffmpeg.
> 
> Why?

Because nobody has implemented it for other fftools yet.

> I don't know about this and I might be naive here,
> but isn't hardware acceleration useful for decoding as well?

The existing hwaccel is only for decoding.

Timothy