Valve closed a working Steam Frame video decode patch as a duplicate of its own item

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 14 Oct, 23:29 UTC

Valve closed an outside developer's working patch for Steam Frame hardware video decoding on October 12, as a duplicate of a job its own engineer had put on the tracker 12 days earlier. The item it pointed at, "Lepton: let Android apps use the Iris hardware video decoder (MediaCodec)", was opened…