The screen-share viewer ran mpv with --profile=low-latency (hwdec off by
default) and then forced --hwdec=auto back on. On some drivers the HW H.264
decoder stalls mid-stream: a viewer receiving a software-x264 share froze on
the first frame while audio kept playing (one MPEG-TS byte stream, so bytes
were still flowing — the video decoder gave up, the audio decoder didn't).
Screen-share H.264 at these bitrates decodes trivially in software, so leave
hwdec at the low-latency default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
molluskandClaude Opus 4.8
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