(02-10-2014, 11:25 AM)delroth Wrote: Uhhh... why would that be unlikely to change? It would be an obvious improvement to streaming performance. And a way for NV/AMD to sell more of their latest generations of GPUs.
Actually that isn't a recent feature at all. It was started with the Geforce 8 series for Nvidia and the Radeon 4000 series for AMD in Linux. Anybody that's streaming using Steam OS (and doesn't like shitty looking/slow games) can utilize hardware accelerated h.264 encoding.