If you want to play PC games on your TV and/or tablet, try Sunshine (server) and Moonlight(client). I was surprised how smooth and latency free it is.
My setup:
- I don't feel like sitting in-front of the PC after work, with this setup I can easily play on the tv with headphones at night without bothering the family.
- Both server and client are free. Moonlight client is available for all major platforms.
- Works really well for me, sub-5ms latency, but there are two latency causing factors here (1) Network and (2) H265 decoding. Play around with the server and client setting to optimize for your hardware.
- On the FireTV 4K Max, decoding latency is relatively high compared to nvidia shield and apple TV 4K , its fine but its not very smooth. ~10ms on FireTV 4K Max vs ~2ms on shield and apple tv.
- It also works with both xbox and PS5 controller with vibrations. PS5 controller is emulated via ViGEmBus as an xbox controller so the keys show up as A,B,X,Y
- You'll need good WIFI If you want to do this wirelessly, otherwise you can do this wired, which will also be cheap.
Overview - Sunshine documentation
docs.lizardbyte.dev
GitHub - LizardByte/Sunshine: Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Contribute to LizardByte/Sunshine development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Moonlight Game Streaming Project
Moonlight Game Streaming Project has 14 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
github.com
My setup:
- PC : 5600x + 3080ti (wired)
- Clients : Apple TV 4K (802.11ax 2x2 5Ghz) and Shield 2019 Pro (802.11ac 2x2 5Ghz)
- Network : Asus ET8 + AC86U (asuswrt merlin)
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