Observed behaviour
You get an orange banner about the stream being encoded with software
Reproduction steps
- Have a GPU that supports AV1 encoding, i.e 8th gen NVENC encoder (Nvidia 40/50 series+)
- Enable screenshare with AV1
Build information
Canary Desktop 2026.531.33409, Web 2026.531.132513, Windows 11 10.0.26200 (x64), Electron 41.2.2, Chrome 146.0.7680.188, Node 24.14.1, Locale en-US
Platform
Windows
Details
Expected behaviour
Should encode in AV1 through hw
1 comment
Comment by Hampus