Quickstart: Pixel Streaming Locally in Unreal Engine 5.1

NOTE: confirmed with Epic the 'Use microphone' toggle is broken at the moment but is being worked on. The idea of it is to get your mic to broadcast directly to the UE game from your browser using a special component: PixelStreamingAudioComponent. I'll make a new video when it's working!

Should also work with any device on your network-- instead of localhost use the ipv4 address of the host computer. Try it from your phone!

launch parameters:
-AudioMixer -PixelStreamingIP=localhost -PixelStreamingPort=8888

additional useful ones: (thx John Langley)
-RenderOffScreen -Unattended -ForceRes -ResX=1920 -ResY=1080 -GraphicsAdapter=0 -PixelStreamingEncoderRateControl=VBR -AllowPixelStreamingCommands

documentation:

[NOTORIOUS]

"Should also work with any device on your network-- instead of localhost use the ipv4 address of the host computer. Try it from your phone!" - this is from the description and it's actually the most important bit of info. Ty so much, can't wait to try it out.

[theone]

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. MANY THANKS BRO! 👍🎯🤙😉

[VICVIC]

amazing!!! thank you very much for showing this

[michaelkukula]

So if I send the link someone, they’ll be able to stream it from my computer?

[UrbanChime]

Hi, after naming the txt file to .bat format where i have given short cut path to the signalling server the bat file in not working.

[michaelb]

i keep getting this error even though plugin is enabled: Plugin 'WMFCodecs' failed to load because module 'WMFCodecs' could not be found. Please ensure the plugin is properly installed, otherwise consider disabling the plugin for this project.

[Serendipity-ht]

What is the range of webRTC UDP ports used in PixelStreaming?

[PhotoMakers]

Thank you!! First time and it worked!!
One question:
I have no mouse cursor to interact with the UI. Every time I press ESC to show the cursor, it disappears when interacting with the UI. It only happens in the Browser, not the actual game. Any insights here?

[David_Fernandez]

What link would you share to invite someone else to join from another location? Can several people join? My idea would be to create a running interactive installation, in which the audience can simply change the camera point of view while the installation run. Is it possible with this set up?? Thank you a lot!

[motionforgecg]

This was great thanks :) - just a note I am using Unreal 5.3 and if I activated the plugins before packaging the project I got a package error about missing modules. So I created a new project, packaged project first and then installed pixel plugins and then packaged again and it worked. Not sure if this was a local issue on my PC. But in case anyone has same issue with 5.3

[totalfresh]

can we somehow turn off the sign of UE via runtime? and can we get access to streaming from my own website. like just by pressing some "run" button on website page to run local streaming?

[shivaprasadkm]

brother, I cant create Batch file i tried several times, it stays in text doc file itself.is this win 11 issue?

[norlin_visualization]

This is really brilliant. How would I use this on another computer? Or how would I put this on my website?
Thank you!

[phonphaknonkham]

cant run on web with localhost, not sure why TT

[dhruvadhia]

cannot run local.bat file, automatically closes down even if i run it as admin

and when i run setup.ps1 I get this windowsbase.dll version error

[archviz_belgium]

How many connection can we do in the same time ?
At home as exemple we are 5, one pc create the package and the 4 other users want to go on the link in the same time.
It's possible ?

[古道兮峰]

Opening the pixel streaming plugin cannot package the project

[yogo_jogo]

What a cool. Do you know the way to utilise the SFU which has update on UE5 as well?

[UnrealEngineDevBrasil]

Excellent content. Would you have any tutorial showing how to implement this service to be accessed anywhere in the world and not just locally?

[saadmunir]

Thank you so much for this.

My game uses mouse cursor but when i use it in the browser, i cannot use the cursor. Mouse cursor is not even visible.