From what I've heard, the Steam Link shows you Steam in Big Picture Mode, so you can still scroll through games and stuff so you don't have to go into another room to Stream a game into the room you want to Stream to.

I'm not sure if i really understand what you said.
Big picture mode is cool, i wish it could play movies (that's the only thing i want) but it only plays music files.

Originally posted by Frank Jaeger:

I'm not sure if i really understand what you said.
Big picture mode is cool, i wish it could play movies (that's the only thing i want) but it only plays music files.

What I meant was that, from what I heard, you can stream Big Picture Mode to the Steam Link. This is how you would access your movies, music, movies and other things.

Yeah, thanks. But as i said before, big picture mode only launch games or play music. At least here on my pc, don't know if it will play videos on the Steam link

Originally posted by Frank Jaeger:

Yeah, thanks. But as i said before, big picture mode only launch games or play music. At least here on my pc, don't know if it will play videos on the Steam link

Movies should appear in your "Recent" tab of Steam in the games section. I own the AVGN Movie and couldn't find it in my normal games list, even with "all games" selected, but it can be found in the recents tab.

Thanks, i'll try to check the "recent" tab.

A quote from a PC World article[www.pcworld.com] from early March:
"One last interesting thing I learned: Despite early reports that this was a ''Steam streaming machine,'' I confirmed with Valve that you can in fact stream anything from your PC, including just your pure desktop environment (or a browser running Netflix, Spotify, whatever)."

Here's to hoping they haven't changed their minds.

Originally posted by Ｂｏｓｃｏと名乗る猫:

A quote from a PC World article[www.pcworld.com] from early March:
"One last interesting thing I learned: Despite early reports that this was a ''Steam streaming machine,'' I confirmed with Valve that you can in fact stream anything from your PC, including just your pure desktop environment (or a browser running Netflix, Spotify, whatever)."

Here's to hoping they haven't changed their minds.

They can't. How the technology functions they literally cannot unless they force steam to lock you out of your own computer while playing. That will never happen as people will probably literally go insane from rage.

It works just like in-home streaming, so if you have 2 computers test it out.

Originally posted by Shake&Bake CorpsThndr:

Originally posted by Ｂｏｓｃｏと名乗る猫:

A quote from a PC World article[www.pcworld.com] from early March:
"One last interesting thing I learned: Despite early reports that this was a ''Steam streaming machine,'' I confirmed with Valve that you can in fact stream anything from your PC, including just your pure desktop environment (or a browser running Netflix, Spotify, whatever)."

Here's to hoping they haven't changed their minds.

They can't. How the technology functions they literally cannot unless they force steam to lock you out of your own computer while playing. That will never happen as people will probably literally go insane from rage.

It works just like in-home streaming, so if you have 2 computers test it out.

Why would Steam need to lock you out of your computer, if it's just doing the simple task of Streaming what the screen sees onto another device, and making you able to interact with it?

Thanks again guys.

Indeed, that would be cool if the Steam Link could stream whatever is appearing to the screen, that's not really complicated after all. And honestly, i don't see the purpose of a device streaming steam games only. I want this to avoid buying another pc for my living room.

If you wanna watch video files on you TV a Chromecast is a good solution. You can then use "Videostream for Google Chromecast" a chrome extension. It will steam you video fils to you TV (chromecast) and you can add Subtitles if you want.

Yeah i was going to buy a chromecast but i wasnt sure about how it works. Does it use its own codecs and encoders to play a file? Or does it simply just send the file to the tv? I want to avoid the tv encoder.

Originally posted by Frank Jaeger:

Yeah i was going to buy a chromecast but i wasnt sure about how it works. Does it use its own codecs and encoders to play a file? Or does it simply just send the file to the tv? I want to avoid the tv encoder.

I think Chrome Cast works with mobile devices and tablets only, and even then I think it only works with Android (I hope not because I was interested in it and I'm strictly iOS).

I searched a bit about it. It looks like we can use it without any tablet/smartphone, and we can use chrome in a pc/mac, through a special plug-in, but i'm not sure at all.

I just tried plex, i does not work very well too. If that steam link ain't working too, i think i'll have to buy a living-room pc.

Originally posted by TGC-K61- Luke 'Caomhnóir' S-C:

Originally posted by Shake&Bake CorpsThndr:

They can't. How the technology functions they literally cannot unless they force steam to lock you out of your own computer while playing. That will never happen as people will probably literally go insane from rage.

It works just like in-home streaming, so if you have 2 computers test it out.

Why would Steam need to lock you out of your computer, if it's just doing the simple task of Streaming what the screen sees onto another device, and making you able to interact with it?

Because how in-home streaming works.

In-home streaming literally remotes you into your PC. You can Alt-Tab and do PC stuff on the machine you are streaming to. I tested this with Bioshock Infinite a couple months back
If you have two PCs, install steam on both and then install a non-steam game shortcut on one, it should show you are able to stream that program as well. I have tested this with notepad the same day I tested Bioshock. (was testing my network and how it worked)

So unless they force it so you cannot alt-tab out of the game, and make it so you can't run non-steam games - which would be locking you out of your computer while you're streaming - , you will be able to do what you currently can do with In-home streaming.


So to simplify it: Make a VLC shortcut in steam, stream that on another PC//SteamOS
Or watch the videos offered on steam.