Posts made by porst17

I finally managed to figure it out. The reason why the above config files don't have any effect is simple, but not obvious: There are two variants of the Moonlight front-end: moonlight-embedded and moonlight-qt. The files in /recalbox/share/system/configs/moonlight are for moonlight-embedded, but Recalbox uses moonlight-qt on RPi4. Therefore, another config file is used which is located at: /recalbox/share/system/.config/Moonlight\ Game\ Streaming\ Project/Moonlight.conf.

It was not clear to me how to modify the config to switch to 1080p. The file is normally managed through the Qt front-end and not directly edited. So I installed moonlight-qt onto another Linux box, applied the settings through the UI and checked the config file. There required settings are part of the [General] section:

[General]
width=1920
height=1080
fps=60

Porting the settings over to my RPi4 Recalbox finally made it stream my 1080p desktop in 1080p! Looks much better now!

If spent the afternoon setting up Sunshine (Linux PC) and Moonlight (Recalbox 9.1 on RPi4), but can't get Moonlight to accept 1080p streams. My findings:

• Streaming from Sunshine to Moonlight on a MacBook works flawlessly in 1080p, both in h.264 and h.265, so I could confirm that the encoder is working as expected on the Sunshine side.
• I modified the moonlight_*.conf files located in /recalbox/share/system/configs/moonlight/ such that the video settings becomewidth=1920, height=1080, fps=60, but it does not seems to have any effect.
• I manually ran the command that is issued from EmulationStation when MoonLight is launched, but I added the --resolution 1920x1080 --fps 60 switches. With these options, 1080p streaming works as expected. However, I have no idea how to permanently add these switches to the command (and I'd prefer adjusting the moonlight config files).
• Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Any help is appreciated.

Since you are mentioning WAN (and not LAN):

• AFAICS the current Moonlight.sh script will always assume that the machine is on the local network and append .local to the host name. According to the Recalbox wiki, the Moonlight.sh script needs to be modified to work with IPs instead of hostnames.
• The Moonlight wiki contains an extensive guide for setting up game streaming over the internet.
• The guide recommends to pair the server while still being on the same network. If this is an option, it is probably easier than modifying Moonlight.sh. Once that's done, you can manually adjust the config files with the public IP of your server and set up the port forwarding if necessary.