Moonlight on Pyra

[NiGame]

Been using this software on my Android tablet and thinking it would be great to steam my PC games to my pyra with the built in controls.
The Moonlight project is quite good and have versions for Raspberry Pi etc
If someone would be willing to port this it would be awesome.

• https://moonlight-stream.com/

 

[TrashyMG]

Seeing how we already have it on the Pandora, It should be fairly easy.

 

[Eight Bit]

Should be doable

 

[Askarus]

Nice.

 

[klapse]

sorry for lazy/n00b question but does moonlight just capture screen or window and convert it to a video stream? Will it work with non-steam games?

[EDIT] From ze wiki:
What it does This app streams games from a GameStream-compatible PC on your local network or the Internet.

So. ... GameStream can stream any app?

This seems to be windows only... https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/803993/gamestream-on-linux/

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Maybe eventually the functionality could be accessed by Nouveau?

 

[TrashyMG]

sorry for lazy/n00b question but does moonlight just capture screen or window and convert it to a video stream? Will it work with non-steam games?

It streams applications/games in general, one of which can be Steam and games launched from Steam.

 

[WizardStan]

It streams applications/games in general, one of which can be Steam and games launched from Steam

And if not configured correctly will happily stream your desktop instead of the game you actually want.
I forget how I fixed that.

 

[Grench]

And if not configured correctly will happily stream your desktop instead of the game you actually want.
I forget how I fixed that.

Which could be quite useful for some applications. Does it create a secure tunnel when doing this?

 

[Eight Bit]

It requires windows defender to be switched off
I don't think it's very secure but in your LAN....

 

[elvissteinjr]

I've had great experiences with Parsec, lower latency than Steam In-Home Streaming (didn't test Nvidia steaming) on my phone. Also works over the internet.
Unfortunately it's closed source. They have a RPi client, but it also depends on OpenMax, so I guess that wouldn't run on the Pyra, I believe...? Android version may work though (might be tough without hardware decoding).
Also requires Windows 8.1+ as a host.

Still, would be cool to have that as well it can be made possible.

 

[Grench]

It requires windows defender to be switched off
I don't think it's very secure but in your LAN....

No Windows. Can Steam Linux stream this way?

 

[klapse]

Well for linux:

I found a script for ffmpeg that will screengrab and encode an h264 stream with about 20ms lag. On the player side, it's not easy to get low decoding latency, but mplayer has settings that do a good job of it. This would be good enough for RPGs that don't really need fast timing. It might be possible to write a simple client and server that will stream with ffmpeg and allow control input with x2x or equivalent.

I've been also playing with nomachine / nxserver remote desktop software and it also has new-ish support for video games (streaming). The android client is pretty usable. Sadly not FOSS.

 

[lukey]

Also TurboVNC/VirtualGL already works reasonably well on the Pandora via an USB-WiFi-Stick. http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=gamestreamer

 

[Eight Bit]

I forget how I fixed that.

make mstsc.exe the application to start.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

I'm really surprised no one has ported this to the Pyra yet.

 

[jedi23]

First things first: has the IVA subsystem already been ported to the current kernel?
The processor may have enough power to decode h.264 videos in software, but for enjoyable video streaming performance, hardware decoding is mandatory.

 

[Eight Bit]

Yeh... I tried but I couldn't get it to work... been 1,5 yrs since that effort though