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Chapters:

00:00 - Low Latency Remote Desktop
00:49 - What is Moonlight?
03:06 - Hosting a Moonlight session
03:42 - Sunshine, a Moonlight hosting service
04:07 - How to configure Sunshine
05:35 - How I use Moonlight with Sunshine
06:14 - Some minor details
07:19 - The End?

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[RizalBoon]

Thanks to remote apps like Parsec and Moonlight/Sunshine, I can work using more power with my workstation PC on laptop as long as I have internet connection. Now I no longer have anxiety on laptop specs and can focus more on the works. This is great for my mental health and anxieties, considering that seeing a lot of laptop has soldered parts nowadays and it's becoming a norm.

[blacksamuraisoffendme]

One of my favorite things about windows is how much other programs are forced to have compatibility because of its popularity. Thanks for the tutorial

[Steezy_Tech_]

You can get around the mouse delay in Moonlight by using the key combo Ctrl + Shift + Alt + M, this changes it to be focused on your local mouse position. This feature is mainly for desktop streaming, I would not recommend using it while gaming as some games will not reocgnize this mouse methodology.
I also recommend Parsec as the overarching general RDP, it can handle multi-monitor and streams most games well and swap to Moonlight for the ones that require best possible latency.
Would recommend Playnite as well for the aggregate of all your games in a single pane of glass. It removes the need to add and tweak your Sunshine game library as Playnite scans all of the game distribution platforms on launch. You can just add Playnite on Sunshine which can launch in full screen mode (similar to Steam Big Picture) and call it a day.

[KennyFlagg]

Thanks for promoting this solution. Sunshine has worked wonders on my windows & shield pro setup. Really interested in sandboxing an instance to allow the main pc to run applications while someone is gaming on the shield (even if it’s just retros and not AAA titles)

Couldn’t wrap my head around getting peripherals to work with a virtual display so might need a more robust VM

[changeagent]

This explains why playing a game on my phone on geforce now on a server over 100 miles away had less latency than in the same house on my high end pc on steam link using gigabit ethernet.

[EtherealIntellect]

The mouse framerate thing might be from a high polling gaming mouse, try dropping down to 125hz or 500hz and see if it fixes it. And parsec does draw the mouse client side which makes it a bit better at interacting with desktop applications/work

[dzphdlm]

Yes highly recommend Sunshine / Moonlight combo. I run a home server / nas / pihole / valheim server / nextcloud with Truenas Scale (5950x), on there I also have a gaming windows VM with gpu passthrough (rtx 3090). I use a HDMI dummy plug - to get 4k120hz i needed to get a Display Port to HDMI adapter (as the hdmi dummies are usually older hdmi types). Can stream to my linux desktops / laptops / android - and just the other day i managed to get it working on my LG tv (which also pairs PS5 controller directly). Runs perfect for me. [edit removed reference to steam remote play being capped at 60hz]

[DontKnowDontCare]

Sunshine/Moonlight is how I have access to my whole Steam library all the time time even on the go without having a Steam Deck.

[louisacarlson]

Moonlight and sunshine managed to get steam running on my basic af anbernic and chrome os flex, I’m so impressed

[notjulesatall]

Regarding headless configs, some compositors such as Sway are able to make displayless outputs. I haven't tried yet but it might be a solution for headless Moonlight streaming without a dummy plug.

[TheMotz]

Tried a lot, but parsec was the way to go for me. Moonlight was great till the support stoped. Haven't tried sunshine till now. But parsec works so good, that I don't have the urge to change something. Never change a running system 😃

[QuesoCeez]

Sunshine + moonlight is amazing the fact I can play on my iPhone 1080p 120hz is amazing, and I can play over the internet it was so easy to set up if you have a bit of knowledge now wherever I go I can use Playnite as my launcher and feels like a portable console

[adrianrubio]

thank you, love the truman show ref at the end.

[LizardByteDev]

Nice video! We have some work to do on Linux, but the good news it has gotten some attention recently.

[zerosick]

I stream my pc games to my switch lite with these. It's such a game changer.

[imag]

This is technically not correct. The reason that remote desktop is not ideal for graphically intensive applications is because it uses no hardware acceleration. Neither VNC or RDP use the graphics output of the host machine. They use a virtual display which is typically software rendered on the CPU (you can configure some of these to render the virtual display on the graphics card but it is very technical and not for the novice user). This is why you can run these machines headless, or if you RDP to a windows box if your logged in locally it will log out of the local session. There is no mirroring going on on the client machine. I personally find parsec to be a much more versatile tool, but moonlight essentially does the same thing. They use your GPU's encoder to encode the rendered output of your graphics card via H.264 or H.265 thus enabling hardware acceleration. The connection over the network is exactly the same so the latency is identical just one is hardware accelerated and one is not. Parsec also has it's own virtual display driver so no need for a dummy output dongle in the GPU's HDMI port. I've tested this on trueNAS running a 4090 and it's been great.

[RichardBejtlich]

This video is SO HELPFUL. You explained everything very well. TYVM. 🙏

[psiga]

Great public service announcement, thank you.

[PaperReaper]

I use sunshine + moonlight for accessing my gaming pc when in the city i commute to for work. Its very solid. And i have a pikvm active just in case my pc locks up or needs a restart. Only issue is my pc there is hooked up via powerline and sometimes the powerline adapter just stops working for no reason and needs a powercycle

[Slade]

Great vid, been using sunshine for a while now, I agree getting it working on linix with AMD was a bit of a pain, but works great after its done