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Steam In-Home Streaming
s_busby_uk:
I've not tested this myself but intend to now that's it's out of beta. Potentially useful if you have a powerful main PC but an older MAME PC in your cab and want to try out some Steam stuff.
http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/21/5738932/steam-in-home-streaming-now-available-for-everyone
DeLuSioNal29:
Looks interesting... I'm wondering if it would be able to Stream Direct X 11 content to my Direct X 10 arcade machine. Need to experiment!
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream#announcements/detail/1371656528221232928
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s_busby_uk:
I think it's just a video/audio stream so don't see why not?
What I like is that this means you can buy a small capacity SSD for cheap that just houses your cabinet stuff and then have any PC games that would otherwise take up space just stream to it instead. Does mean you need another computer on in the house though...
spoot:
Yeah, haven't look at it much........but it might just be a custom "vnc"?
s_busby_uk:
Well it's more about immediacy, and bear in mind it also needs to deal with controller input lag effectively to be viable. A VLC stream doesn't really need to be instantaneous as it's a one-way thing.
From the site:
"We recommend a minimum of a quad-core CPU for the computer running the game. The client has more modest requirements, but should have a GPU that supports hardware accelerated H264 decoding. Any recent laptop or PC should meet the client requirements."