2015-01-30, 21:28
@teeedubb - great to see so many different support options you've made for getting to steam
A quick note on in-home-streaming from a Linux client (well from any client) . . . make sure to enable hardware encoding on the server if you have an nvidia GPU. Takes less than 3% of its resources to run NVENC and spit out 1080 @60fps. Couldn't figure out why steamos streaming looked so crappy compared to limelight until I realized that changing the "server" settings for streaming from the client doesn't do the change on the server. Remote accessed the server and ticked the hardware encode box and back to awesome-looking
Out of all your setup options I think I like an Ubuntu+steam-session and OE dual boot the best. I think kodibuntu is great and is all a more knowledgeable Linux user would need. For me it is too much to overcome simple hurdles like getting my pulse eight cec adapter to work (and keep working)
In the end I did an Ubuntu USB install and formatted two extra ext partitions after swap (at the end of the free space) then added the mdeslaneur PPA and installed all its packages. Installed OE to the last two ext partitions like the OE dual boot wiki says and updated its grub menu accordingly. Rebooted and chose Ubuntu from grub then enabled the steam desktop. Had to drop into a terminal and install consolekit for all the steam-desktop-session power menu options (like reboot) to work. Reboot and auto logged into steam ddetermine Then edited the grub cfg to use "OpenELEC.tv" as default, updated, rebooted. Everything worked
A quick note on in-home-streaming from a Linux client (well from any client) . . . make sure to enable hardware encoding on the server if you have an nvidia GPU. Takes less than 3% of its resources to run NVENC and spit out 1080 @60fps. Couldn't figure out why steamos streaming looked so crappy compared to limelight until I realized that changing the "server" settings for streaming from the client doesn't do the change on the server. Remote accessed the server and ticked the hardware encode box and back to awesome-looking
Out of all your setup options I think I like an Ubuntu+steam-session and OE dual boot the best. I think kodibuntu is great and is all a more knowledgeable Linux user would need. For me it is too much to overcome simple hurdles like getting my pulse eight cec adapter to work (and keep working)
In the end I did an Ubuntu USB install and formatted two extra ext partitions after swap (at the end of the free space) then added the mdeslaneur PPA and installed all its packages. Installed OE to the last two ext partitions like the OE dual boot wiki says and updated its grub menu accordingly. Rebooted and chose Ubuntu from grub then enabled the steam desktop. Had to drop into a terminal and install consolekit for all the steam-desktop-session power menu options (like reboot) to work. Reboot and auto logged into steam ddetermine Then edited the grub cfg to use "OpenELEC.tv" as default, updated, rebooted. Everything worked
