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Sunshine
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Show HN: A Vulkan-Video-based game streaming tool for Linux
> Would the Swift UI also work on an iPad?
Yes, but probably not for the first version.
> Do you have any comparisons with other tools (eg steam streaming, moonlight)
Steam streaming just doesn't really work on linux. Moonlight is somewhat similar in terms of direction, and has an established client base. I know of at least two projects to build servers for the Moonlight protocol[1][2].
The Moonlight protocol is a bit weird, because it's an open-source reverse engineering of a dead NVIDIA project, GeForce now. There are fundamental limitations to the protocol, for example that the cursor must be rendered in-stream or simulated. Using my tool, the cursor is rendered locally, and custom cursor images can actually be pushed to the client, for a seamless experience. This sounds like a minor detail but it matters a lot for subjective latency. I'm also working on employing tricks like hierarchical coding using FEC in the protocol, because I hate VBR encoding for games (it makes text blurry and breaks immersion). Those tricks aren't really possible in Moonlight.
All of the Linux solutions I know about have significantly higher latency compared to Magic Mirror, although I don't have numbers for exactly how much higher. (I have a benchmark to test the latency of my tool, but the others don't.) I'd encourage you to try them out and get a feel for the difference.
Finally, I think Magic Mirror is the easiest to install and get going on the server. It has almost zero runtime library or service dependencies (there's a pesky dynamic link against libxkbcommon which I haven't managed to remove), so you don't need to mess with pipewire or docker or anything - it's completely self-contained.
All that said, the existing tools have the advantage of a larger user and contributor base, whereas Magic Mirror is just me on a mission so far :) So they're likely to be much more stable and usable.
[1]: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine
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Why is remote desktop slow when host monitor is off unless HDMI cable is used?
RDP as a regular or quick solution is actually really decent in this respect.
(1) https://app.lizardbyte.dev/Sunshine
- AMD Funded a Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built on ROCm: It's Open-Source
- How do I stream games from PC to Nvidia shield with an AMD card?
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Microsoft launches Windows App for accessing PCs in the cloud from any device
Moonlight + Sunshine for a self hosted solution, works with every OS
server: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/
client: https://github.com/moonlight-stream
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KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland by Default
You could use sunshine (https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine) + moonlight (https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt). To be honest, at least for me, it works better than most of the RDP/VNC stuff.
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Give Moonlight a chance if you haven't tried it lately
EDIT: Just checked again, original was released early 2020, current maintained project started 2022.
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RG353VS Moonlight
On your pc, install Sunshine. It's an open source moonlight server. There's a good walk through on the sunshine github page. Connect your handheld to the wifi running the server & open moonlight. Should work.
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Introduction
I discovered the moonlight client and sunshine server a few months ago. These are open source solutions to provide remote gaming/desktop capabilities with built in input and audio passthrough. I tried NoMachine, but I wasn't able to get audio to work. This looks like a known issue on arch. On sunshine, I didn't have to do any extra tweaking! This allowed me to game on my desktop pc without having to sit at my desk. This was especially helpful while watching my 2nd son. I was really impressed by the performance, I could stream my host's display at high resolutions and frame rates with low latency despite my desktop being in the basement using WiFi. I was getting some instability with WiFi, so I wanted to try connecting my desktop to the router via Ethernet. I decided to go with a headless solution because that gives me more flexibility on the placement of the desktop; I ended up moving my desktop upstairs closer to my router. I figured out a way to stream my hosts display headless by using Nvidia TwinView to create the virtual display. This means I don't need to buy any HDMI/DP dummy plugs. I wrote a Linux Guide for sunshine on how to set this up. If you have any feedback on this guide, let me know! I haven't tried this, but wolf is an interesting docker alternative to sunshine.
- Sunshine vO.21.0 released!
IddSampleDriver
- Moonlight at 120 FPS?
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Any way to turn on the monitor remotely?
Get a dummy plug and mirror your monitor to it, or use this https://github.com/ge9/IddSampleDriver essentially the same thing but on a software level.
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How to do Ultra Wide Screen?
Indirect Display Driver
- Problem with Blender viewport on a Windows 10 VM
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Help! Kid took my gaming room, is there a way to remote connect to my rig?
This is the way to go. In addition, you can setup a virtual display (I'm using [this](https://github.com/ge9/IddSampleDriver)) so you don't even need a monitor plugged in.
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What's your preferred software for GPU-accelerated remote Windows desktop?
Honestly I'd reccomend moonlight with sunshine - although I can't say I've tested more than nvenc myself - it supports multiple encoders beyond nvec, and has a lot more performance tuning options ideal for a high bandwidth connection like a virtual bridge (which parsec is a bit less optimized for, and looks a bit blockier). It also doesn't need an online authentication, but still needs a dummy plug or this black magic
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Monitoring system details for my Gaming VM through Grafana!
What is your host system? Since ESXI recognizes it and you could enable pass through without issue I’m thinking it is not BIOS related. I previously had issues with a different GPU on ESXI and it was immediately apparent something was wrong when you went to enable pass through (the checkboxes in the panel would go crazy, turned out to be a GPU map issue in ESXI). As for the display, it shouldn’t be necessary considering in its default state the M40 is intended for compute / CUDA tasks. Eventually you will need a display obviously, but out of the box if you’re just trying to confirm the GPU has loaded without issue a display is not necessary. For the display driver, I’m using IddSampleDriver, which works well (no HDR support, fyi)
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GPU Passthrough with HDMI Dummy Not Working
Indirect Display Driver Sample
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how to fix aspect ratio
this theoretically should work too, tho I haven't yet gotten around to trying
- [Canada] Found an OK-priced HDMI EDID device for 4k60 HDR on Amazon.ca
What are some alternatives?
rustdesk - An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.
IddSampleDriver - Add virtual monitors to your windows 10 device! Works with Oculus software, obs, and any desktop sharing software
openstream-server
hdr-switch - turns hdr on while running for windows 10
vita-moonlight - NVIDIA Gamestream client for PlayStation Vita, based on moonlight-embedded
Nsm - Nsm - NDI Simple Monitor
parsec - A monadic parser combinator library
MonitorSwapAutomation - Automates swapping to a dummy plug when streaming, then automates swapping back to primary monitor once finished.
switch-remote-play - Let the switch remotely play PC games (similar to steam link or remote play)
ResolutionAutomation - Automates changing the host resolution to match the client resolution of Moonlight, with capabilities of supersampling if required
nvidia-patch - This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.
Custom-Resolution-Utility-ToastyX - Custom Resolution Utility for Windows by ToastyX, duplicated so the source won't be lost.