Trying to export video clip results in an error
Hello @lsahnicne, please copy the contents of Steam Runtime Diagnostics from Steam (Steam -> Help -> Steam Runtime Diagnostics) and put it in a gist, then include a link to the gist in this issue report. In particular, we want to check if the 32 bit VA-API render path is healthy.
Added Steam Runtime Diagnostics to the report. It might be a duplicate of #11603 but that is on NVIDIA GPU while I have AMD.
Same here on Debian.
https://gist.github.com/megatog615/62cab98ac7605f997016cf38dcbe8750
+1 also on AMD GPU
Same here:
Linux Mint 22.1
deb Package
AMD Ryzen 5 2600
AMD Vega56
https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kisak/kisak-mesa/ubuntu noble main
is used
Starting export preview of clip clip_1537830_20250602_070951
Exporting/previewing from MPD files /home/jokergermany/.steam/debian-installation/userdata/xxx/gamerecordings/clips/clip_1537830_20250602_070951/video/fg_1537830_20250602_070740/session.mpd
[preview] Starting for export
[preview] Completed for file (23ms)
Preview finished
Starting export preview of clip clip_1537830_20250602_070951
Exporting/previewing from MPD files /home/jokergermany/.steam/debian-installation/userdata/xxx/gamerecordings/clips/clip_1537830_20250602_070951/video/fg_1537830_20250602_070740/session.mpd
[preview] Starting for export
[preview] Completed for file (8ms)
Preview finished
Starting export of clip clip_1537830_20250602_070951
Exporting/previewing from MPD files /home/jokergermany/.steam/debian-installation/userdata/xxx/gamerecordings/clips/clip_1537830_20250602_070951/video/fg_1537830_20250602_070740/session.mpd
[export] Starting for file: /media/HDD/steamexport/clip_1.750.102.512.771.mp4
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
[export] Failed to make initial encoder
Export failed with error code Failure
It don't matter if enable hardware decoding is on or off.
Last sucessfull export was 2025-06-13
since then this error.
Steam Beta Branch: Stable Client
Steam Version: 1747701111
Looks like the flatpak has the same problem:
https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/issues/1421
€dit:
Some newer clips can be exported 🤔
(same Game)
Starting export preview of clip clip_1537830_20250615_172722
Exporting/previewing from MPD files /home/jokergermany/.steam/debian-installation/userdata/xxx/gamerecordings/clips/clip_1537830_20250615_172722/video/fg_1537830_20250615_172205/session.mpd
[preview] Starting for export
[preview] Completed for file (51ms)
Preview finished
Starting export preview of clip clip_1537830_20250615_172722
Exporting/previewing from MPD files /home/jokergermany/.steam/debian-installation/userdata/xxx/gamerecordings/clips/clip_1537830_20250615_172722/video/fg_1537830_20250615_172205/session.mpd
[preview] Starting for export
[preview] Completed for file (72ms)
Preview finished
Starting export of clip clip_1537830_20250615_172722
Exporting/previewing from MPD files /home/jokergermany/.steam/debian-installation/userdata/xxx/gamerecordings/clips/clip_1537830_20250615_172722/video/fg_1537830_20250615_172205/session.mpd
[export] Starting for file: /media/HDD/steamexport/clip_1.750.103.881.457.mp4
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
[export] [try_hardware=true][codec=1][bitrate=7500][framerate=60][width=1920][height=804][encoder_hardware=3]
[export] Processing file: /home/jokergermany/.steam/debian-installation/userdata/xxx/gamerecordings/clips/clip_1537830_20250615_172722/video/fg_1537830_20250615_172205/session.mpd
BCreateHwDeviceContext AMD Hardware VAAPI ...
... success.
[export] - Decoder: Hardware VAAPI - Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuvj420p(pc, bt709, progressive), 1920x804, 70243 kb/s
[export] - Encoder: Hardware VAAPI - Video: h264 (h264_vaapi) (High), vaapi(pc, bt709), 1920x804 [SAR 1:1 DAR 160:67], q=-1--1, 7500 kb/s
Interesting Side-Fact:
It doesn't matter if hardware decoding is on or off, it uses hardware decoding anyway XD
And it doesn't matter if h265 is activated or not, it's using h264 anyway XD (perhaps because my hardware don't support 265 decoding?)
+1 for AMD GPU on PopOs 22,04 same error as op
+1 Getting the same errors when exporting video on current Arch Linux + Radeon 9800 XT
BCreateHwDeviceContext Nvidia Hardware CUDA ...
BCreateHwDeviceContext Nvidia Hardware CUDA ...
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
... failed.
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
... failed
+1, getting same error as above with 6750XT.
+1, same on ryzen 5 7530U integrated graphics
Attempting to save a clip to clip_739630_20250729_100221 from background, timeline_73963020250729_001129[5050428] to timeline_73963020250729_001129[5062427]: 1 timelines, NOT including current, BACKGROUND recording
...save successful
Starting export of clip clip_739630_20250729_100221
Exporting/previewing from MPD files /mnt/ata-ST500LM030/obs shit/stem/clips/clip_739630_20250729_100221/video/bg_739630_20250729_001211/session.mpd
[export] Starting for file: /tmp/steam/34B60FB3DE79F5.mp4
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
Same issue as well! I'm using the HEVC codec and hardware encoding.
Ubuntu 25.04
Ryzen 5 5600
Radeon 6700 XT
Same issue.
Windows 11 pro
5080
7800x3d
+1 Same issue
Arch Linux 6.18.2-zen2-1-zen
Ryzen 7 5800X
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
The problem is still arorund.
Operating System: CachyOS Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.3-1-cachyos-rt-bore (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 6 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15,5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600
Steam runtime logs:
https://pastebin.com/8bkLypJW
Having the same issue.
OS: CachyOS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.18.9-2-cachyos
DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.5
WM: KWin (Wayland)
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Steam Runtime Diagnostics: https://gist.github.com/Ann0ying/9d730c8262beb110f50a932b1778ca0f
If you're still unable to export a clip, I've found a temporary workaround in the form of manually exporting clips saved in Steam with ffmpeg
Locate your Steam recordings folder and find the subfolder that corresponds to your saved clip (Example: clip_XXXXXXX_YYYYYYYY_ZZZZZZ)
You can use the contained thumbnail.jpg to help visually recognize it. Enter the folder with a Terminal and do...
You might also be able to parse the `clip.pb` file for the clip's name
It seems that the clip.pb file can be humanly read using protoc and that the clip's export name is the line starting with a "7:" meaning we can in theory get the clip's name with:
protoc --decode_raw < "$x/clip.pb" | grep "^7" | cut -d'"' -f 2
You might also try out using GNU `find` to narrow down the possible clip folders
Using this command within your clips folder
find -type d -mmin -120
Can help you narrow down which clips you saved within the last 2 hours if that also helps.
ffmpeg \
-i <(cat init-stream0.m4s chunk-stream0*.m4s) \
-i <(cat init-stream1.m4s chunk-stream1*.m4s) \
-map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 \
-c copy \
"~/Desktop/My-exported-clip.mp4"
Using cat combined with BASH's Process Substitution feature via <(command) syntax, we can avoid storing an extra combined set of files on the disk by having ffmpeg directly read cat's standard output as if it were a file
and you should after some time, get a merged video file out to your Desktop.
From there you can do any manual post-processing (such as to reduce file size, etc.) you wish.
But yeah I'm also having this problem trying to export with any settings at all
Still experiencing this issue
AMD RX 9060 XT on Fedora KDE 43
If you don't mind H.264, you can click on the custom tab when exporting the video and set the codec to H.264 and then you can get your video out of Steam without running any ffmpeg commands directly.
Should be a fine work around for now until this gets fixed.
@yemouu
I was unable to export with any video codec and that's why I had suggested the ffmpeg thing as a workaround in the meantime
Still having this issue for a long time now
Can export with h.264, but h.265 fails
AMD 9070 XT
EndeavourOS (Arch) x86_64
+1
I can manually export it by selecting h.265 in the export window, otherwise it won't export properly nor automatically as usual.
RX 7900XT
Fedora 43, COSMIC
At some point I started having clip exports work again, does anyone else in this Issue Comments section still have the problem?
Exporting/previewing from MPD files /ssd-blahblah...
[export] Starting for file: /home/user/Videos/Atomic Heart - 2026-04-24 9-29-57 PM.mp4
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Cannot load libcuda.so.1
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
libav: Could not dynamically load CUDA
[export] Failed to make initial encoder
Export failed with error code Failure
Nothing extracted yet.
Your system information
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
I'm trying to export a video clip made with Steam Recording as a video file, but it returns an error "Failed to export, try again (2)"
Steam Runtime Diagnostics https://gist.github.com/lsahnicne/ea1640010006d165ad70d5a8890e8e3c
Steps for reproducing this issue: