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Server backend for Moonlight. Moonlight is a client that implements the Geforce Experience streaming protocol used by the Nvidia Shield TV to stream your desktop from any Nvidia GPU.

Although the original Nvidia implementations are proprietary, Moonlight + Sunshine work on non-Nvidia and non-Windows machines.

"Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight"

I had to look up Moonlight because I also had no clue: https://moonlight-stream.org/

Moonlight Internet Hosting Tool

https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setu...

so.... i can set this up on a vm and get cloud gaming with all the inefficiencies ? nice

In my experience, if you're using a provider like Paperspace it can be a pretty slick experience. Before I had symmetrical upload and download speeds I would use Paperspace with Moonlight and it worked pretty well.

Yeah they probably should have linked Moonlight[1] in the README.

[1] https://moonlight-stream.org/

Seems to me like it’s a service or application for streaming games and controls over LAN. I.e. an OSS alternative to what Steam uses for in-House game streaming.

Think of this as a FOSS self-hosted NVIDIA GeForce Now/shadow.tech/Google Stadia.