Has anyone tried the Mi box with the Moonlight streaming app?
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FairJuliet
Can anyone vouch for how it compares to the nexus player?
topherrr
So yes, I've done it a couple nights laying in bed. It works great, or as great as you can consider in game home streaming with any combination of device (tablet or phone through hdmi), TV (4k or 1080P), or service (Gamestream or Steam Home Streaming). For reference, I've done this dance many times with many difference devices and TVs over the past 3 - 4 years.
I owned a Shield Tablet with HDMI out to the same exact TV and the experience is identical to the Mibox. I've streamed both devices at 1080p/60fps and they both upscale pretty nice to the 4k TV. Obviously, the front end UI to Nvidia Shield is nicer, but it has no consequence to my actual gameplay experience.
The basics are:
You need your router hooked directly through Ethernet to your computer (Or technically at least one endpoint hooked into the router, be it TV/Mibox or Computer).
Your router needs to be AC with decent range. Early AC routers don't cut it as your their range was literally 10ft and throughput, bandwidth dropped dramatically the farther away from the router you were.
Ignore both of the above if you plan to use Ethernet at both ends.
You have to understand that sometimes games crash or get in this weird state GameStream can't understand. This happens with both the official nvidia way or through Moonlight. It's annoying but most of the time you can just quit out of moonlight/gamestream and it will force close the game process and start again.
The best experience is just launching Steam. The in game streaming for Gamestream definitely understands how Big Screen works and can handle launching and quitting games better then just launching a standalone exe.
FPS are a horrible experience for me with any time of game streaming. The input lag just drives me insane.
That being said, any third person or strategy game that accepts controller input seems to play great. ABZU would be an example of a game I finished off on the Mibox the other night.
In terms of input, I use a Xbox 360 Wireless USB Adapter to my MiBox and just make sure the Xbox 360 controller is charged and it works fine. I tried getting my DS3 and DS4 working wirelessly with my Mibox but both failed to pair. I didn't bother looking into root methods, though they both would probably work if it was rooted with the SixAxis app. If you have a long enough USB cable, both DS3 and DS4 would work fine. I'm even guessing the new Xbox One S Bluetooth controller works great.
thetickz
Here's a video with some comments on moonlight streaming. I haven't tried moonlight yet with my Mi Box.
https://youtu.be/mVSD3plzvP4
So yes, I've done it a couple nights laying in bed. It works great, or as great as you can consider in game home streaming with any combination of device (tablet or phone through hdmi), TV (4k or 1080P), or service (Gamestream or Steam Home Streaming). For reference, I've done this dance many times with many difference devices and TVs over the past 3 - 4 years.
I owned a Shield Tablet with HDMI out to the same exact TV and the experience is identical to the Mibox. I've streamed both devices at 1080p/60fps and they both upscale pretty nice to the 4k TV. Obviously, the front end UI to Nvidia Shield is nicer, but it has no consequence to my actual gameplay experience.
The basics are:
You need your router hooked directly through Ethernet to your computer (Or technically at least one endpoint hooked into the router, be it TV/Mibox or Computer).
Your router needs to be AC with decent range. Early AC routers don't cut it as your their range was literally 10ft and throughput, bandwidth dropped dramatically the farther away from the router you were.
Ignore both of the above if you plan to use Ethernet at both ends.
You have to understand that sometimes games crash or get in this weird state GameStream can't understand. This happens with both the official nvidia way or through Moonlight. It's annoying but most of the time you can just quit out of moonlight/gamestream and it will force close the game process and start again.
The best experience is just launching Steam. The in game streaming for Gamestream definitely understands how Big Screen works and can handle launching and quitting games better then just launching a standalone exe.
FPS are a horrible experience for me with any time of game streaming. The input lag just drives me insane.
That being said, any third person or strategy game that accepts controller input seems to play great. ABZU would be an example of a game I finished off on the Mibox the other night.
In terms of input, I use a Xbox 360 Wireless USB Adapter to my MiBox and just make sure the Xbox 360 controller is charged and it works fine. I tried getting my DS3 and DS4 working wirelessly with my Mibox but both failed to pair. I didn't bother looking into root methods, though they both would probably work if it was rooted with the SixAxis app. If you have a long enough USB cable, both DS3 and DS4 would work fine. I'm even guessing the new Xbox One S Bluetooth controller works great.