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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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