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Lepton

Valve Closes Steam Frame Hardware Decode Patch as Duplicate

October 21, 2026October 14, 2026 by mw
Whirligig Media Player playback controls in VR, official Steam store screenshot

A developer got HEVC hardware decoding working in Steam Frame’s Lepton container, but Valve closed the request as a duplicate of a still-blank work item.

Valve Open-Sources Lepton, Steam Frame’s Android Container

October 21, 2026September 27, 2026 by mw
Valve Steam Frame standalone VR headset product photo

Valve published Lepton on GitLab, a non-root Android container that runs Android-exclusive VR games on Steam Frame and Linux for developers porting titles.

Valve Open-Sources Lepton Android Layer Behind Steam Frame

October 21, 2026September 19, 2026 by mw
Valve headquarters lobby (CC BY 4.0, Tim Eulitz / Wikimedia Commons)

Valve quietly published Lepton, the Android container layer powering Steam Frame VR ports, on its SteamOS GitLab under MIT and GPL-3.0 licenses.

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