Video Hardware Decoding?

[Melody]

It's been there for years now and it still doesn't work, even when you enable it.

Why is Valve still using CEF, which is crap?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

For movies?

[-_-]

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[Melody]

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

For movies?

:qr:

For HTML videos inside the internal Steam Web Browser.

[Forcen]

Are you sure that setting is for videos in the browser? How can you tell it doesn't work?

What should they use instead of CEF?

[Melody]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Forcen:

Are you sure that setting is for videos in the browser? How can you tell it doesn't work?

What should they use instead of CEF?

For what could it be then? Video are only used in the Interface by the internal Steam Web Browser, which is Chromium Engine Framework. You can tell it doesn't work because it still uses the CPU for rendering, there are several steps to verify that:

• First of all, GPU's Memory Clock and VPU don't get triggered by the video playback, so it's clearly not using any GPU for both rendering and decoding.
  
• Second, if you change Video Playback settings inside your NVIDIA Control Panel while the video is playing, changes have no effects at all, so it's clearly not using GPU for rendering.

As an answer to your second question: Mozilla's engine correctly supports hardware decoding and accelerated rendering, so I don't know why Valve chose to use CEF.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

I knew I saw your thread before...

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/1458455461497576074/

[Melody]

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

I knew I saw your thread before...

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/1458455461497576074/

:rbiggrin:

That's a suggestion about not using CEF.

Instead, I'm reporting an issue here.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Have you tried posting it in the Beta forum to see if there is anything they could do for you?

[Forcen]

Can you do that video effect stuff in regular chrome with hardware acceleration enabled?

The other thing the option might refer to is the steam streaming video player used by stuff like this: http://store.steampowered.com/app/633030/Oats_Studios__Volume_1/
I think it's also used for watching steam broadcasts in the client?
I tried starting that thing and nvidia shadowplay popped up so that might be it, but it might have done that before.

I'm not sure If someone have ported the firefox engine for stuff like this.

[Melody]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Forcen:

Can you do that video effect stuff in regular chrome with hardware acceleration enabled?

Yes, the same issue happens and is perfectly reproducible in Chrome on all systems.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Forcen:

The other thing the option might refer to is the steam streaming video player used by stuff like this: http://store.steampowered.com/app/633030/Oats_Studios__Volume_1/

I don't know how "Steam Streaming Video Player" works because I've never purchased any video.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Forcen:

I think it's also used for watching steam broadcasts in the client?

Steam Broadcasts work through the Steam Web Client, so it still uses CEF and it's basically a web page.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Forcen:

I'm not sure If someone have ported the firefox engine for stuff like this.

Yes, they have.

[Forcen]

You can't watch that video in a browser however and it's free if you want to test. It seems to be running in some type of web app still.

If it works with chrome normally then I guess it's bugged or the setting is about something else like that special streaming player, I agree it's a bit confusing.

Beta forums is a good idea.

[Melody]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Forcen:

You can't watch that video in a browser however and it's free if you want to test. It seems to be running in some type of web app still.

If it works with chrome normally then I guess it's bugged or the setting is about something else like that special streaming player, I agree it's a bit confusing.

Beta forums is a good idea.

I'll test that movie later. Beta forums didn't help us at all.