Steam/play from computer to TV (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by zipkag@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I have steam up and running on my main daily driver ( currently endeavour OS, but I also have a dual boot to a Windows with steam also working if needed, but just about everything I'm playing lately is working great on Linux).

I have a TV connected to a older HP PC that acts as my media center. It runs Kodi on Linux mint. Both computers are wired ethernet connected. Is there a way I can stream/play games from my daily driver to my computer that's connected to the TV? Is there a Kodi add-on I could use? Do I just need to install steam on my Linux mint? I don't have a steam link device. I did some brief reading on steam remote play and it looks like that's more designed to share with others not just stream from my own account to another computer.

Currently My daily driver is actually close enough to my TV that I could even have a keyboard/controller connected to the daily driver and just stream the video if that was better. But in the future I may want to rearrange rooms, so ideally I guess it would be best to have the controller through my HTPC as well.

Any advice on how to best approach this?

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[-] Sianna@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Take a look at moonlight game streaming. I use it since years and it offers very low latency and great quality. It uses the same protocol as steam link, but far better. It's natively for Nvidia cards but for amd there is a sunshine (?) called client for the host. You can use moonlight on windows, Linux, Android, I personally run it on a raspi. I'm a huge fan and haven't had the need to look for different solutions since.

[-] Morgikan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Moonlight/Sunlight are both really great options. The only problem I've encountered with either is that the mouse cursor is encoded into the video stream itself. It adds a little bit of lag when moving the mouse and makes it feel not quite right. Steam doesn't encode to the stream, so it feels much more responsive. Parsec doesn't either, but it does not support hardware decoding in Linux so you're going to be stuck with an added ~10ms decode time.

[-] zipkag@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome, I'm going to look into this, thanks

[-] Sianna@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Oh BTW I use it as mstsc remote desktop

[-] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ive used sunshine and moonlight as well as steam and steam link.

Both work good. I have an Nvidia card. Fwiw.

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