Steam game recording videos not playing back correctly
Hey this is a really minor issue and i have a workaround but it's annoying enough to want to get it sorted.
Basically whenever my friend shares a steam game recording with me on discord, i cannot play it, it plays sound but not video.
If i open it in vivaldi my browser of choice it does the same, but on firefox it plays fine, i can also download it and play it in haruna just fine.
Videos work perfectly on a windows pc and on my android phone.
here's an example if that helps:
https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/13039894483416331604/AB0B29D19910D5CC8E0DA48C93996DF06715F786/
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I suspect that the codecs that are included in the discord flatpak are limited so you only getting audio in that video above. You might be able to use one of the alternative discord clients to fix that.
ive tried a few others now and it seems consistent across different clients, im wondering if this is just chromium across the board cant play these files on linux or smth weird
Adding to it, I am able to play this video perfectly with audio + video using Equibop
i just reinstalled equibop to check, same issue here
very odd, wonder if i have some setting or smth
Thats odd
Your friend most likely sent a HEVC encoded video.
The way I worked around it was enabling hardware accelerated decoding on discord (as well as any other chromium based application) with
--enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiVideoDecoder in the Exec field of my .desktop file for discord (I use vesktop but it's similar for discord I think). This allows me to use the decoding libraries included in stuff like intel-media-drviers to decode.
Bazzite should have all the relevant hardware acceleration libraries preinstalledno joy with this unfortunately sorry to say, still having the same issue