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Re: Heavy color compression artifacts on Surface Pro X (issue 9-0583000030587)

Apprendista — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:16:02 GMT

Hi, you can also try to force H264 using Stadia+ 3rd party extension (https://github.com/Mafrans/StadiaPlus ) and this will fix the problem.

Still, it's a 3rd party extension, it's not guaranteed that you'll be able to force H264 in the future and VP9 is supposed to have better compression so, depending on your connectivity, you could be short on bandwidth.

It's really a pity that Stadia couldn't at least repro and acknowledge the issue.

Re: Cannot use Stadia on Microsoft Edge

Apprendista — Tue, 19 May 2020 19:52:28 GMT

It is now working on Edge (Stable) but it has the issue both in the dev and canary versions: this may mean that the issue will simply resurface when Edge will be upgraded.

Spoofing User Agent to Chrome still solves the issue.

Re: Cannot use Stadia on Microsoft Edge

Apprendista — Fri, 15 May 2020 17:59:41 GMT

Hi, understand that officially only Chrome is supported but this is kind of a dirty trick:

- It was working perfectly fine since the other day

- It's a deliberate filter to ban other Chromium based browsers: it's not a technical problem or incompatibility since just spoofing the user-agent and "masquerading" as Chrome solves the issue

- It doesn't give any hint that the problem is an explicit ban of other browsers: it just fails silently making it seem that it's the alternative browser fault

I know I might face potential issues when using a chromium browser instead of Chrome and I can choose but an outright and sudden block seems unjustified.

Davide

Re: The Stadia App Runs of Surface Pro X

Apprendista — Mon, 04 May 2020 19:12:44 GMT

Hello, take a look here https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-on-Chrome/Heavy-color-compression-artifacts-on-Surface-Pro-X-issue-9/m-p/21628

You can workaround this disabling hardware decoding in chrome://flags #disable-accelerated-video-decode or forcing h264 (see stadia+ extension)

Still a fix would be great...

Heavy color compression artifacts on Surface Pro X (issue 9-0583000030587)

Apprendista — Mon, 04 May 2020 19:08:38 GMT

Hi, I'm playing on a Surface Pro X (Chrome) and I'm seeing some heavy colored artifacts in the video stream and they get worse as you play.

Found out that disabling hardware decoding in Chrome (#disable-accelerated-video-decode ) solves the issue but kills battery life.

Any other VP9 video (e.g. youtube VP9 samples) are decoded in hardware without problems.

Also chrome://gpu/ says VP9 is supported:

Decode vp9 profile0	16x16 to 8192x8192 pixels
Decode vp9 profile0	16x16 to 8192x8192 pixels
Decode vp9 profile2	16x16 to 8192x8192 pixels
Decode vp9 profile2	16x16 to 8192x8192 pixels

Would be great to know if Google is aware of the issue and/or is working on a fix.

Thanks