com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight CC0-1.0 GPL-3.0+ Moonlight Play games remotely from your NVIDIA GameStream-enabled PC

Moonlight can stream games and other applications from a PC with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600-series or higher GPU and GeForce Experience installed.

Features include:

https://moonlight-stream.org https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt/issues https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setup-Guide https://moonlight-stream.org/appstream_resources/moonlight_screenshot_1.png https://moonlight-stream.org/appstream_resources/moonlight_screenshot_2.png

New features:

  • Stricter adherence to the specified bitrate when streaming over the Internet

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed audio crackling that impacted certain systems
  • Fixed Wake-on-LAN packets failing to send on some systems
  • Reduced audio latency when resuming a session where audio is already playing
  • Added option to enable the old SDL audio renderer by setting ML_AUDIO=SDL
  • Updated to use the new Qt 5.12 Flatpak runtime
  • Updated to FFmpeg 4.1
  • Minor UI tweaks

New features:

  • Improved security of pairing - After this update, you must re-pair with your PC!
  • Enabled quitting games started by other Moonlight clients also running this update

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed the video bitrate slider not working above certain values on GFE 3.16
  • Fixed broken Bluetooth audio with PulseAudio
  • Reduced audio latency
  • Fixed some non-gamepad devices triggering the unmapped gamepad dialog box
  • Minor UI tweaks

New features:

  • Added option to quit the app after stopping the stream
  • Added CLI option to quit the running app

Bugfixes:

  • Switched to libsoundio backend to address audio glitches and reduce latency
  • Fixed CLI version output
  • Fixed streaming error messages not showing up when launching from CLI
  • Updated included SDL gamepad mappings
  • Various minor UI tweaks

New features:

  • Added an option to match client display refresh rate when FPS is unlocked

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed multiple gamepads not being detected on the host in some scenarios
  • Fixed an incorrect warning when trying to stream at 4K

New features:

  • Added support for GeForce Experience 3.16
  • Added an option to force Moonlight to start in windowed mode

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed scrolling not working on the settings page
  • Skipped using proxy servers when attempting to stream
  • Fixed a couple possible crashes
  • Renamed the mouse acceleration option to be more clear

New features:

  • Added automatic IP address detection for Internet streaming
  • Added a quit shortcut tip for gamepad users

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed server state polling not being stopped while streaming

New features:

  • Added support for quitting Moonlight via gamepad
  • Added tooltips for games with very long names

Bugfixes:

  • Added a workaround for a memory leak in the VAAPI driver for AMD GPUs
  • Fixed combo boxes on the settings page being too small for certain DPI scaling
  • Reduced power usage when Moonlight is idling in the background for a while

New features:

  • Added keyboard and gamepad UI navigation
  • Added support for mouse X1 and X2 buttons (back and forward)
  • Added support for mouse movement with touchscreens
  • Improved HEVC performance at high bitrates
  • Added support for launching streaming sessions directly from a terminal or script
  • Added quit shortcut for gamepads: Select+Start+L1+R1

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed not saving deletion of PCs
  • Fixed keys being stuck down on the host PC after Moonlight loses focus or quits
  • Fixed some warning dialogs being stuck behind the UI window
  • Updated included gamepad mapping list

New features:

  • Added option to enable mouse acceleration for remote desktop usage
  • Added option to disable automatic PC discovery
  • Added gamepad mappings from gabomdq's SDL_GameControllerDB
  • Added help links to error dialogs
  • Added quit shortcut tip to stream loading page
  • Restored the autodetect audio configuration option

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed quit app dialog starting the wrong app
  • Fixed very high input lag on GFE 3.14.0 and earlier
  • Fixed sending errant mouse click when capturing the mouse

New features:

  • Added option to enable (unsupported) 90/120 FPS streaming on 60 Hz monitors
  • Added refresh rate matching for better frame pacing on high refresh rate monitors
  • The streaming window now appears on the same monitor the UI was displayed on
  • The streaming window is now centered on the target monitor
  • Display a dialog when the connection is terminated by the remote PC
  • Added option to select between full-screen exclusive and borderless windowed mode

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed streaming with no audio device
  • Fixed mouse lag with some high polling rate mice
  • Improved UI performance on the app grid page
  • 1440p and 4K 120 FPS performance is improved to avoid encoder bottlenecks
  • Autodetect audio configuration option removed because it was broken

Bugfixes:

  • Reduced power consumption when the app is minimized
  • Fixed malformed asset requests being sent when the first host in the grid is offline

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed functionality of '=', 'Numpad Dot', and 'Numpad Enter' keys
  • Fixed uninitialized variable causing strange gamepad behavior
  • Added a warning for incompatible configs and decoder failures
  • Added a warning for Wayland performance issues
  • Stopped capturing the mouse by default for windowed streams

New features:

  • Allow streaming at the client's native resolution
  • VDPAU hardware decoding support for NVIDIA GPUs
  • Updated UI to replace status text with icons
  • Stream window is now resizable
  • Display warnings during game launch for configuration issues

Bugfixes:

  • Gamepad input now works even if the app doesn't have focus
  • Fixed streaming black screen if the host supported HEVC but the client didn't
  • Fixed broken video scaling causing extra stretching and off-center video
  • Fixed gamepad input issue causing some Y axis inputs to be reversed

Changes from 0.0.4:

  • Fixed a bug causing increased frame drops and input lag
  • Added support for quitting running games
  • Added support for waking sleeping PCs with Wake-on-LAN
  • Increased the FPS limit to 120 FPS

Initial pre-alpha release for Linux. Please file bugs!

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