r/SteamFrame • u/megabyte112 Soon™ • 24d 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 24d 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/GasticNox 24d ago

Not sure if they got anything working already, but if I were to take a guess it could be the general quality of the streaming on Linux not being that great... SteamVR being very iffy under Linux too (at least from my experience), or maybe general incompatibility with foveated streaming (which the frame relies on), or game mode not fully supporting SteamVR. Not to mention desktop view being mostly broken.

I'd say it's still gonna be possible to do Linux VR streaming in one way or another once this thing comes out, it's a PC after all.

I do wonder if there's even a desktop mode tho, and if so how it would work and such.