Hardware decoding and AV! support both disabled on Steam Deck, despite the hardware supporting both in Remote Play

[Star-X555]

Terminal doesn't have any useful data sadly.

Interface lists Hardware Decoding as disabled and the option is greyed out, while AV1 is listed as Not Available.

Any chance of a fix? Steam Link works WAY better than Remote Play, so having proper AV1 support would really help.

Edit: the title should have AV1, not AV!. Apologies.

[slouken]

For me the option is grayed out and set to "Enabled" if HEVC is enabled, which is correct. There's no software decoding option for HEVC. If I disable HEVC, the option is enabled and I can select hardware or software decoding. This is a bit confusing, so the next update will make that option always available.

The Steam Deck hardware doesn't support AV1 decoding, so it being available in Remote Play is a bug, which will be fixed in the next Steam Client release.

[slouken]

Out of curiosity, in what way does Steam Link work way better than Remote Play?

[Star-X555]

Less lag, less crashes, applications don't close and lose all progress if the client end has problems, non-gaming apps and/or launchers don't suffer from slowdown, and other such differences.

It's likely cause both client and host are Linux, to be fair. Perhaps Linux client and Windows host lacks that issue.

Anyway, for me HECV enabled or disabled makes no difference in the hardware decoding option; it's always greyed out and disabled.