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Earlier versions of Fluxer falsely reports software decoding when the client seems to be using hardware decoding, newest first.

Current version | Edited by Astral
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Expected behaviourRemoved: The banner shouldn't logically pop up as it appears that the issue resides in the hardware encoding detection might be broken for vaapi.Added: The banner shouldn't logically pop up as it appears that the issue resides in the hardware encoding detection for vaapi.
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Fluxer falsely reports software decoding when the client seems to be using hardware decoding

Reproduction steps

  1. Enable AV1 encoding
  2. Start a screenshare
  3. Measure cpu usage with btop
  4. compare cpu usage to svt-av1 on OBS Studio

Expected behaviour

The banner shouldn't logically pop up as it appears that the issue resides in the hardware encoding detection for vaapi.

Actual behaviour

The banner pops up, the cpu usage is significantly lower than the software av1 encoders in obs.

Platform

Linux

Original by Astral
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Fluxer falsely reports software decoding when the client seems to be using hardware decoding

Reproduction steps

  1. Enable AV1 encoding
  2. Start a screenshare
  3. Measure cpu usage with btop
  4. compare cpu usage to svt-av1 on OBS Studio

Expected behaviour

The banner shouldn't logically pop up as it appears that the issue resides in the hardware encoding detection might be broken for vaapi.

Actual behaviour

The banner pops up, the cpu usage is significantly lower than the software av1 encoders in obs.

Platform

Linux