diff --git a/src/interactive.rs b/src/interactive.rs
index 006b908..72f7d15 100644
--- a/src/interactive.rs
+++ b/src/interactive.rs
@@ -281,8 +281,10 @@ impl Player {
                 &[
                     // No `--untimed`: it ignores audio timestamps and drifts a
                     // shared video out of sync. Pacing to audio keeps A/V synced.
+                    // Also leave hwdec at the `low-latency` default (software
+                    // decode): forcing `--hwdec=auto` froze some viewers on
+                    // frame 1 while audio kept playing.
                     "--profile=low-latency",
-                    "--hwdec=auto",
                     "--audio-buffer=0.2",
                     "--demuxer-max-bytes=2M",
                     "--demuxer-readahead-secs=0.5",
diff --git a/src/viewer/mod.rs b/src/viewer/mod.rs
index 8876b27..c54476c 100644
--- a/src/viewer/mod.rs
+++ b/src/viewer/mod.rs
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ fn print_viewer_banner(url: &str) {
     eprintln!("│  Connected to host. Open the stream in your player:");
     eprintln!("│");
     eprintln!(
-        "│    mpv --profile=low-latency --hwdec=auto --audio-buffer=0.2 --demuxer-max-bytes=2M --demuxer-readahead-secs=0.5 {url}"
+        "│    mpv --profile=low-latency --audio-buffer=0.2 --demuxer-max-bytes=2M --demuxer-readahead-secs=0.5 {url}"
     );
     eprintln!("│    vlc --network-caching=200 --live-caching=200 {url}");
     eprintln!("│");