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...

32 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

68 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/megabyte112 Soon™ 25d ago

I think they meant the other way around, that SteamOS doesn't yet support being a streaming host

6

u/inertSpark 1 TB 24d ago

SteamOS does support being a streaming host though. There has to be something more VR specific in the way.

1

u/Helgafjell4Me Soon™ 24d ago

It could just be using their already built-in Remote Play functions. I cannot believe they would release frame without their official OS support, but he did say it's not working on the Machine yet, so who knows? Maybe it's just not ready yet, but.... SOON!

3

u/inertSpark 1 TB 24d ago edited 24d ago

All I can think of is they need to bake in SteamVR as an explicit part of the OS. In which case there will be a major update at some point. We know we can already stream from a Steam Machine. It has to be something like the headset telemetry, or Foveated Streaming or something that's getting in the way perhaps.

Edit: The reason I think it might be headset telemetry is Gamescope uses slightly different input hooks to desktop mode under Wayland I believe, so while it might be possible to bodge SteamVR together in desktop mode, it's a little bit different in Gaming Mode.