#1 (src/rtp/decoders.c:reconfigure_decoder() The properties of DXTn do not exactly match - bpp is 0.5, but line (actually 4 lines) is (2 * width) long, so it makes troubles when using line decoder and tiles. So the fallback is external decoder. The DXT compression is exceptional in that, that it can be both internally and externally decompressed.