From d9f36ac2f107a9965a4abdf71e0d213b3110047f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Goins Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 10:47:57 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add blog post about steam troubleshooting --- content/blog/steam-clip-information-bug.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/steam-clip-information-bug.md diff --git a/content/blog/steam-clip-information-bug.md b/content/blog/steam-clip-information-bug.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3bf2a98 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/steam-clip-information-bug.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: "Steam on Fedora Linux: \"Unable to retrieve clip information\"" +date: "2025-01-01" +draft: false +tags: +- Steam +- Linux +--- + +I recently wanted to use the new Steam Game Recording feature, but I kept +running into a really annoying bug - I couldn't save anything! Trying to save it +to Steam's own media manager wouldn't do anything and not even give an error. +When trying to export it to a file, it would say "Unable to retrieve clip information (2)". + +Fortunately, this is super simple to fix - it means Steam is unable to actually +encode the video files. On Fedora Linux, going through +[RPMFusion's guide to installing codecs](https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia) +managed to fix the Game Recording feature for me.