Dev: Hey, take a look at this new interesting software I just released.
Linux users: Screw that! Let's argue about how the software is packaged and distributed instead!

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QEMU clearly prioritizes emulating modern systems, so it's becoming harder and harder to getting stuff like BeOS or Windows 3.11 running. This sounds like a much better option for those computational niches!

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Quoting: SolitaryOh, I wasn't sure how that worked. What source of information are you using? Because I used to see lot of placeholders in games where I would suspect the issue would have been resolved already. I just tried Yakuza 4 and the intro worked, even though it did have some ocassional encoding artifacts.

Oh, it's a TL;DR of !that proton issue [External Link]. I might not be up to date though, it's a rather long read.

For those who are curious, the interesting stuff lives in media-converter in the Proton repository. There's a short README and more information in the comments (and code of course!):
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/tree/proton_7.0/media-converter [External Link]

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI tried the Demo of REsident Evil 2 [External Link] and notebook video is not shown...
Proton log complain about some winegstreamer error: matroskademux0: Internal data stream error.
winegstreamer error: matroskademux0: ../src-gst_good/gst/matroska/matroska-demux.c(5869): gst_matroska_demux_loop (): /GstBin:bin0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstMatroskaDemux:matroskademux0:
streaming stopped, reason error (-5)

This is one game where I think something went wrong with the conversion process. Steam downloads a transcoded_video.foz file, which should contain the transcoded video, but it's just 16 bytes in size.

Playing the game and triggering the video actually dumps a 148MB video file so unless Valves are masters of compression there's a problem somewhere...

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Quoting: GuestI'm a bit puzzled on the meaning of this, why is "local" specified?

The GStreamer libs that are shipped with Proton now builds against ffmpeg (for the libva plugins), But Proton still does not ship with or distribute ffmpeg. This is mentioned in the commit messages. (Probably for patent reasons).

I think this means that Proton should now be able to use the ffmpeg libraries local to your system for H264 playback?

Edit:

So I did some poking around running a game (Beautiful Desolation Demo [External Link] with mp4 videos (and MF I think?). In Proton 7, running through the Steam client, I get the same behavior as before, a test screen picture.

Running Proton 7 manually, so it picks up the system libraries, videos actually play fine*. I'm not sure if this is the "local" situation mentioned in the changelog, or if they plan on actually breaking out of the container and use system libs for video playback on non-Deck systems?

* Small gotcha, the game actually request hardware decoding through VAAPI and tries to use some unimplemented filter resulting in garbled video, but disabling hw decoding with LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME="" fixed that.

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelFunny, menu backgrounds (they are videos star constellation, actually) and in-game videos in Endless Space 2 are now a test picture instead of simply being black. I am not sure I would count that as an improvement ;-)

That probably means the videos have been dumped and should hopefully be transcoded into a playable format soonish.

Would be interesting to see how long that takes.

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Quoting: thoughtfulhippoWow, iFixit are hard to please. Every part is replaceable, I can even imagine motherboard / SoC upgrades being available in the future, and only merits a 7/10 repairability score!

They do have a point about the battery though. I just hate it when it is glued down.

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Looks like a good match for the deck!

Funselector recently expanded with more full-time employees [External Link]. Some sort of mod support and a new location is planned for aor so apparently things are going quite well for them.

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Quoting: ShmerlCouldn't Wine use ffmpeg for that? It could handle WMA and WMV for a long time already.

This implements a specific Windows API, which in turn uses GStreamer, which in turn most likely will use ffmpeg on most systems.

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Quoting: pete910Only 10.5k to go to get all of steams library done :whistle:

...and then do it all over again whenever there's a new major release of Proton.

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