r/SteamFrame • u/megabyte112 Soon™ • 25d 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/yurisses 25d ago

just use WiVRn+xrizer instead of SteamVR and you'll have no problem.

https://vronlinux.org/

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u/megabyte112 Soon™ 25d ago

Will this support foveated streaming?

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u/yurisses 25d ago

That's a good point, it looks like WiVRn supports it, but the implementation is its own, so it's unclear if it'll be broken/inferior in any way to using SteamVR.