Steam Remote Play adds AV1 video streaming support as well as other Linux fixes

Steam's Remote Play feature, which allows playing Steam games on phones/tablets/TVs/other PCs while streaming from your main gaming system, is now capable of handling AV1 video streaming.

Today's Steam beta update has added AV1 video streaming support for Remote Play as one of the interesting changes in this rather large update. Today's Steam Beta release notes mention the following:

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– Added support for AV1 video streaming on high-end systems.

Details beyond the “high-end systems” requirement were not immediately available, but newer AMD/NVIDIA/Intel graphics cards support accelerated AV1.

This major beta update also updates the included Chromium build, adds support for recording GPU-accelerated H.265/HEVC content as part of game recording, support for recording up to 4K when using H.265, and a new “–disable-screensaver”. -inhibit” command line option for the Steam Linux client, removes support for macOS 10.13/10.14, removes support for Windows 7/Windows 8, and other changes. Plus a few Linux-specific fixes, including some crash fixes.

More details on this major Steam client beta update via SteamCommunity.com.