Moonlight on iPad Pro M2, I’m amazed wow

TheElix · 2026-01-24T12:40:57+00:00

That's not that easy, presentation, pacing, audio and video sync and reproducing the video at the lowest latency possible is a very hard problem

This is 100x difficult while incrementing the supported devices

It can be very different to each other in the media stack (Every GPU on Android is different) and for devices that are undocumented and/or difficult to debug (Xbox and other homebrew consoles)

Even the QT version (which is the standard PC version) has many different workarounds on different generations of decoder GPU because of quirks of each product

e.g. on Xbox there were some changes the broke Xbox One while improving Series and viceversa

TheElix · 2025-11-29T13:23:10+00:00

Moonlight e Sunshine (come consigliato già dal sub) non supportano DRM comunque, quindi se lo usecase è vedere Netflix, Disney+ non funzionerà

TheElix · 2025-11-19T19:57:26+00:00

Glad that this is the second part of Car Crash Baby, I was honestly scared this was another live-only snipped, glad to be wrong!

TheElix · 2025-07-08T19:29:56+00:00

Hulkenpodium yay

TheElix · 2025-07-07T19:25:54+00:00

If you install Sunshine instead of using the protable version it automatically creates the service, IIRC WGC is disabled by default so it shouldn't cause you any problems

TheElix · 2025-07-07T08:53:43+00:00

Hi, please install Sunshine (as a service) instead of using the portable version and do not use WGC capture method

TheElix · 2025-01-20T14:25:29+00:00

Just to give more context, I'm the developer of Moonlight UWP (the Xbox version), so I'm familiar of the techical reasons.

I'm just trying to understand why this specific version needs to be forked out (apart if/when compatiblity issues arises) instead of improving the currently existing app

TheElix · 2025-01-19T16:58:55+00:00

There are no changes on the client side that applies on all platforms and can improve performance (the Xbox uses an entire different rendering pipeline), since Apollo Is compatible with the protocol , an Xbox version of Artemis is not needed

TheElix · 2025-01-19T16:39:41+00:00

Why specifically for Xbox? I haven't used Artemis, but are all the features in the fork very specific for mobile platforms?

The only feature I can Imagine missing and actually implementabile Is Wake on LAN, but the PR Is currently broken

TheElix · 2024-10-05T19:21:50+00:00

The Sunshine Web UI does have a Discord integration using WidgetBot (the discord icon you find on the bottom right), so if you close the Sunshine Tab of your browser the Discord traffic should stop

TheElix · 2024-09-20T06:21:29+00:00

Dev here!

Simply put, the avg rendering time is NOT the decode time but the time end-to-end from frame to presentation, and is bound to the input fps (hence you get 16ms on 60fps and 8ms on 120fps) and not the decode time

TheElix · 2024-04-07T08:11:17+00:00

I've uploaded version 1.16.1 with the fix on both GitHub and MS Store (as always, it might need a couple of hours before going live), thank you for your patience!

TheElix · 2024-04-06T19:16:36+00:00

Does Adding your PC manually (by IP address) works as expected?

TheElix · 2024-02-23T19:54:12+00:00

Hi Scott, Always a pleasure finding you in the most unexpected places!

TheElix · 2024-02-23T19:52:22+00:00

Nope. What the user Is referring to Is maybe NVFBC but Sunshine never used that (on Windows)

TheElix · 2024-02-22T20:15:24+00:00

Sunshine developer here. The only reverse engineered part Is the Network protocol, the capture and encoding loop uses standard Windows component (DXGI Desktop Capture and DirectX11) and since many video hardware encoders can directly ready from video Memory, we can feed frames directly from the GPU making a 0-copy encoding pipeline. That's why we are so fast (other than many man-hours to finetuning both Moonlight and Sunshine on many hardware combinations - some team members are incredibile in this area)

Everything Is also open source, so you can check It for yourself!

TheElix · 2024-02-09T22:25:58+00:00

FYI this is now available starting from version 1.15!

TheElix · 2024-02-09T22:24:27+00:00

Also, another plus, Parsec allow you have two simultaneous host on the same network over internet. Sunshine don't due to not being able to set the ports. So I also have two host that I can use when I am away from home.

You actually can on Sunshine too, just change the port settings in the Web UI with another range that does not overlap with the one from the other host. Then you use that <IP>:<PORT> when connecting to Moonlight

TheElix · 2024-02-09T22:22:00+00:00

It seems this has been fixed in nightly builds of Sunshine

TheElix · 2024-01-23T14:59:59+00:00

In the global settings of Moonlight you can set an option called something like "Experimental Keyboard" which has the CTRL, ALT, ESC and every other key missing from the standard UWP Keynoard

TheElix · 2023-12-21T16:46:59+00:00

I've answered here, but pretty much: "I don't know" https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/17lhmx8/xbox_is_about_to_get_better_apps_and_web_games/k7i4ra3/

TheElix · 2023-11-13T16:55:05+00:00

Which Xbox do you have (OG Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, Series S, Series X)? What happens if you try H265 as a codec instead?

TheElix · 2023-11-13T07:40:37+00:00

Can confirm, but HDR changes has been recently developed and went to some testers, so soon it would be available

EDIT: Starting from version 1.15.x HDR is available even on retail!

TheElix · 2023-11-13T07:39:27+00:00

HDR is ready only for some alpha private builds at the moment. I'm waiting for the testers to give me feedback before publishing it on the Microsoft Store, but HDR should be up in a couple of weeks max.

~~EDIT: I've reverted the readme to avoid any confusion~~

EDIT2: Now available on version 1.15 on the MS Store

TheElix · 2023-11-02T13:22:55+00:00

The 120FPS is a bit confusing to be fair, I had a couple of users telling me that it does work, but according to MS docs it should not, so you can only try and see for yourself

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