Quoting: kokoko3kI'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 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. 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

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

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It does look like they are being updated now though.

The Blackwell Legacy that already was available natively have a new Linux build up, and Unavowed which was only Win/Mac now lists Linux too after a recent change:

https://www.gogdb.org/product/1637485057#changelog
https://www.gogdb.org/product/1207662883#changelog

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Quoting: kokoko3k

Quoting: PublicNuisanceIf they answer your email ask them why they aren't bringing them over to GOG.

Judging by their attitude, i think that if they can save even a minimal effort, they'll save it.

By the fact that now that the deck is approaching they are "porting" one game a week, one can conclude that it is an easy task. (ags is opensource and they use it to run their games, probablly with some minor modifications.)
But... up until today, they left us in the cold for years.
Why should they move their fingers a bit more to upload to gog too?

BTW i think i played most of their titles via vanilla ags.

Did I miss something? All except this one* does seem to have Linux builds on GOG?

* The Mac build isn't on GOG either so I guess it's a work in progress situation.

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Quoting: dziadulewiczSome are saying in social media that all these purchases still count as Windows purchases, though? What are they on about or what might they mean?

I guess they are confused?

According to https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

"When buying games from Steam, how is the desktop platform counted? From what Valve told us (February 2020), they first take the desktop Steam client platform used to buy it, then whatever has the most playtime in two weeks. However, Android and Web Browser purchases default to Windows and then what has the most playtime in two weeks. If you want to ensure developers see a Linux sale: play it only on Linux in the first two weeks, don't buy it and leave it."

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I'm still not clear on NFTs.

Monkeys are involved at some level, that's clear. Going by the name, non-fungi, mushrooms are however not. Very confusing.

I guess I could watch the video, but then again, maybe that's exactly how they spread?

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