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SteamOS 3.4 rolls out in Preview for the Steam Deck - it's a massive upgrade
17 Nov 2022 at 10:06 pm UTC

Quoting: jrepinA big regression that comes with this preview version is that in the updates Mesa hardware video playback decoding has been disabled [External Link] for many codecs, because of stupid software patents.
This is especially annoying when streaming from Deck with Steam Link.
As I do not have a Dock and like to use the Deck as my primary controller, I use Steam Link a lot, in both directions.
In the Preview version, my Deck runs noticeably hotter when streaming from it, while also running down the battery quite fast.
I have been experimenting with installing some other Mesa version as a hacky fix, but have not gotten this to work yet.