Valve is beta testing a new high bandwidth, low latency video codec that uses your GPU.
It may not benefit every setup, the company warns, but Pyrowave is a new Steam Remote Play high bandwidth, low latency video codec now available in Steam beta on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It uses “5-10 times the amount of bandwidth of other streaming codecs,” but leverages your PC’s GPU to “encode and decode frames to achieve extremely low end to end latency with a good network.” [Link: Pyrowave video codec now in beta! | https://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/564794422009744473steamcommunity.com/groups/%E2%80%A6/564794422009744473 | Steam Community]
It may not benefit every setup, the company warns , but Pyrowave is a new Steam Remote Play high bandwidth, low latency video codec now available in Steam beta on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It uses “5-10 times the amount of bandwidth of other streaming codecs,” but leverages your PC’s GPU to “encode and decode frames to achieve extremely low end to end latency with a good network.”
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