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AV1 encoding uses software encoding instead of hardware, even though the hardware supports it has not been edited, so there are no earlier versions.

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

Observed behaviour

You get an orange banner about the stream being encoded with software

Reproduction steps

  1. Have a GPU that supports AV1 encoding, i.e 8th gen NVENC encoder (Nvidia 40/50 series+)
  2. 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