AV1 encoding uses software encoding instead of hardware, even though the hardware supports it

(#2920) Bug Open: Confirmed desktop performance video

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Comment by Tarek
TarekMod OP2 votes Still happening
I can still reproduce this on Canary Desktop 2026.1101.102914, Web 2026.1101.132345, Windows 11 10.0.26300 (x64), Electron 44.10.0, Chrome 152.0.7977.169, Node 24.22.1, Locale en-GB