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Fail to export video clip with H.265 codec (even original quality)

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11742 · opened 2025-02-09 by rinsuki · updated 2025-02-09 · 1 comments · github
Rrinsuki 2025-02-09 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): it says "Steamバージョン: 1738026274"
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes, I checked and update every package and reboot, but issue still persist
  • Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]
  • GPU: AMD Radeon 780M (iGPU on Ryzen 9 7940HS)
/usr/bin/vainfo log:
$ /usr/bin/vainfo
Trying display: wayland
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.22 (libva 2.22.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 24.3.4-arch1.1 for AMD Radeon 780M (radeonsi, gfx1103_r1, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.59, 6.12.13-1-lts)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileAV1Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileAV1Profile0            : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I tried to export my clip, but none of them are worked:

  • Export as video file, using original ("オリジナル") option
  • Export as video file, using file size ("ファイルサイズ") option
  • Export as video file, using custom ("カスタム") option, while choosing H.265 (HEVC) codec option
    • none of them are worked if codec is H.265:
      • reduce resolution to 720p (from 1080p)
      • reduce frame rate to 30 (from 60)
      • try every bitrate option (including original)
    • but I can export clip if I choose H.264 as a codec
  • Copy to clipboard
  • Send to my smartphone
  • Create Share Link

Note, I could send clip to other PC (but currently my other Windows/Linux machine is not accessible, so I couldn't verify actually clip was sended. but Steam says successfully sent it)

Tried games:

both games are running on Proton 9.0.

console log only shows this:

Starting export of clip clip_2178480_20250209_130052
Exporting/previewing from MPD files /home/user/.local/share/Steam/userdata/347074001/gamerecordings/clips/clip_2178480_20250209_130052/video/bg_2178480_20250209_123922/session.mpd
[export] Starting for file: /home/user/Videos/不思議のダンジョン 風来のシレン6 とぐろ島探検録 - 2025-02-09 22-00-47 (2).mp4
[export] Failed to make initial encoder
Export failed with error code Failure

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Enable Steam Game Recording
  2. (Maybe Enable H.265/HEVC codec is required, for my case i think its enabled by default)
  3. Play some game and create clip from overlay
  4. Try to export it
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-02-09 github

Hello @rinsuki, this issue is already being tracked at #11603. Closing in favor of the older issue report.

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