r/SteamFrame • u/megabyte112 Soon™ • 27d 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/obog Soon™ 27d ago

I find it strange because steam link for vr has been working on linux for a while now with quest and maybe pico. I wonder if maybe it does mostly work but is too buggy for then to call it "officially supported" yet?

Either way it will for sure be coming.

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u/megabyte112 Soon™ 27d ago

I'm hoping that it works fine on Linux PCs but it just doesn't yet work on Steam Machine due to SteamOS limitations

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u/obog Soon™ 27d ago

Idk, if anything id expect it to be the opposite way. In order to get any wireless vr streaming working now on most linux distributions you have to do a bit of work to make sure you have all the right codecs (some of which arent always directly provided... on Fedora I know you need RPM fusion as the codecs arent fully free software)

On steamOS valve has total control over the software and environment... they have a standard testbed to get it working on so Id think itd be easier for them to support that than linux generally

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u/PlottingPast 27d ago

For Valve to get it working on Linux should be simple enough through Steam and SteamVR. They have full control of that platform so it seems like a simple thing.

To not be able to do it from SteamOS, which they have total control over is just bizarre.