Ok, for visibility, I was able to get a video with a VP9 codec running on a Steam Deck but unfortunately there’s a performance issue when the video loops and it’s a significant hiccup in framerate. Also, the video is not playing smoothly. I’m investigating the following:
- Are there different VP9 codecs that are better and is the free one I downloaded from github causing this?
- I used Adobe Media Encoder and I had some issues getting the WebM extension to work.
- Was there something wrong with the test video?
H.264 plays beautifully on Xbox and Playstation (current and previous gen). Feels odd that the PC version will be lower quality simply because it’s the same version as the Steam Deck version that only accepts a VP9 codec. We might want to ask Valve to make it possible for us to deliver different versions of the game depending on the hardware it’s running on (like other platforms).