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scrcpy v5.0

Changes since v4.1:

• Add hardware decoding (#7057, #7001, #1894, #1672)
• Improve video buffering (#7057)
• Capture all audio usages in audio playback capture mode (#6975)
• Use ANDROID_SERIAL in OTG mode (#7053)
• Build Windows ARM64 releases (#6857)
• Fix dropped keys in UHID for some keyboard layouts (#6983, #6990)
• Fix AltGr forwarding on some layouts (#7050, #7051)
• Fix --time-limit data race (#7029)
• Fix --no-mipmaps
• Avoid "camera capture failed" warnings on stop (#7018)
• Generate mipmaps for all YV12 planes (#7034)
• Upgrade platform-tools (adb) to 37.0.1
• Upgrade FFmpeg to 9.0.2
• Upgrade SDL to 3.4.18
• Upgrade dav1d to 1.5.4
• Various technical fixes

Highlights

Hardware decoding

The video stream is now decoded in hardware on the computer, when possible.

Decoding is faster, CPU usage drops by 10×, and power consumption is lower.

Hardware decoding is enabled by default. Use --hwdec to select a specific decoder, or --hwdec=disabled to force software decoding:

scrcpy --hwdec=auto          # use hardware decoding if possible (default)
scrcpy --hwdec=disabled      # software decoding
scrcpy --hwdec=vaapi         # VA-API, Linux only
scrcpy --hwdec=d3d11va       # D3D11VA, Windows only
scrcpy --hwdec=videotoolbox  # VideoToolbox, macOS only

With --hwdec=auto (or when the option is not passed at all), scrcpy falls back to software decoding if the hardware decoder cannot handle the stream.

On Linux, VA-API requires the GPU's VA-API driver (va-driver-all on Debian/Ubuntu).

See video documentation, #7001 and #7057 for details.

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