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NAS + Jellyfin + Sunshine/Moonlight? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm looking into building my first NAS/Jellyfin server, and one thing I keep wondering about is whether I should try and make it work as a Sunshine server to stream games to my TV via Moonlight.

On my current desktop, I mainly do this for emulated games or former console exclusives. That being said, I'd rather not use my desktop as a server, hence wanting to cram it into a NAS/Jellyfin server. Is this a good idea? Or should I drop it and keep the media server separate?

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[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 4 points 9 months ago

This is my first time learning about Sunshine/Moonlight. How does it work? Does it run via an emulator? Is there an official way to get games?

[-] alkheemist@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago

Sunshine and moonlight are open source implementations of nvidia's game streaming protocol they created for the nvidia shield. You can use it to remotely use your computer from your phone, not just for games. But of course the primary application is game streaming. As long as the game can run on the host (sunshine) computer, you can remotely play it on the client (moonlight) device. I've used it to just launch steam in big picture mode and then select what I want from steam.

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 9 months ago

That's really cool.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

One thing that should be pointed out is that it works with any GPU, NVIDIA, AMD or Intel.

[-] Trincapinones@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

If the server can handle the load, it's a great idea!

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

I use my Jellyfin server as a Moonlight box for one of my TVs, works fine for me. It's an Intel-based mini-PC so the hardware decoding for Moonlight takes basically no CPU usage.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

One thing to note is that I'm proposing the inverse: a Sunshine server does all of the processing for the game so you can stream it to something else like a Steam Deck or Android TV

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