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Steam Beta adds experimental new Pyrowave video codec for Remote Play (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] 22 points 1 month ago (1 child)

This codec uses 5-10 times the amount of bandwidth of other streaming codecs, so you'll want to have your computers connected directly to your router with at least Gigabit ethernet.

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    • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Oh that could be nice, I've got a solid gigabit connection on LAN but I'm still throttled by my GPU encoding rate, might have to give this a go at some point.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That feels like a great use-case! I don’t have a wired connection so the bandwidth usage makes it a no-go for me probably, but you’ll have to post about your experience when/if you give it a shot!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Well I tried it with dead as disco which is my go to for stress testing encoding due to the particle effects and importance of low latency, it was about to pull 4k60 with absolutely no issues, entirely with the CPU if I'm understanding it right? Seemed to be pulling 350 megabit which is so nice.

    The colour was a tad muted, not sure if the HDR implementation isn't quite there or if it's a config issue. Also it was a bit hit and miss with the surround sound setup, but that might have just been the game.

    Overall seriously impressive

    Edit: surround sound definitely just steam remote play being weird. Colours are also fine compared to moonlight maybe my eyes are weird today or something

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    • [+] -8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Wish they would have worked on adding capability to stream games on Linux before they implement a codec that 90% of people can't use.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Streaming on linux seems to work fine tho? I've used it quite a bit to stream on deck and sometimes from deck to my pc without issues. Also streaming to a phone seems to work well with the steam link app.

    Never had issues with remote play together either (both players on linux)

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    [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Is this codec open source?

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