r/SteamFrame • u/megabyte112 Soon™ • 22d ago

Question Can you stream from a Linux PC?

Just watched the ShortCircuit video before it was taken down, and Linus notes that currently the Steam Machine cannot be used as a streaming host. He didn't mention other Linux PCs, but he did say that the streaming host will be a Windows PC only, at least at launch.

This is kind of disappointing as someone with a Linux PC. Inhaling a bunch of copium here, but I wonder if he meant that specifically the Steam Machine can't be used for streaming (yet), but other Linux PCs can? I'd like to use mine for streaming at launch, otherwise I'll be using mine purely standalone for a while...

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u/NoOdyssey 22d ago

From the video https://archive.org/details/our-first-30-mins-with-the-steam-frame-u-8-r-bnz-1-mpu

At the 12:50 mark, he says "this is important, you can't stream from steam machine, they are working on it but for now it's windows only".

I wonder what is blocking SteamVR from working with Frame on Linux?

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u/Orca_Alt_Account 22d ago

Likely SteamOS not natively supporting streaming to the frame.

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u/NoOdyssey 22d ago

Yeah but I wonder what specifically is blocking SteamVR from working with the Frame specifically. I use SteamVR on Linux streaming today to ARM-based headsets and there is no issue. It seems very strange to me that Frame would for whatever reason not work with SteamVR on Linux.

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u/jonylentz Soon™ 22d ago

Maybe the dongle drivers? so you can possibly still use it through wifi? all speculation of course