Moonlight is Nvidia game stream so it’ll be using the Nvidia server or sunshine which implements the Nvidia game stream protocol for AMD/Intel/Nvidia server hardware.
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paraphrand@lemmy.world 9 months agoWhat specifically is better? These are just clients for the Streaming that Steam provides, right? They don’t actually swap out the “server” side, right?
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
cttttt@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They’re completely different implementations of systems that steam video/audio/inputs.
Valve’s is pretty buggy but has deep integration with Steam and allow NAT traversal, while Sunshine/Moonlight are way more reliable, have features that reduce latency but are pretty barebones as far as features: they just do streaming with no tight integration with what’s being streamed.
And Sunshine is a reverse engineered version of Nvidia’s game stream server, since Nvidia sunset Gamestream a few months ago.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Simce Sunshine & Moonlight are open source, I wonder if Valve has considered integrating them. Based on their track record, Valve would likely submit improvements upstream too