Steam remote play experience on Mi Tv Stick

by mattcri

So, I received a stick as a gift, and after some apps deactivation through adb is not even half bad. Streaming YouTube/Netflix/prime video is perfect with zero dropped frames, only minor issue is apps are a bit slow to launch.

Then I tried some gaming with steam I have the steam controller, WiFi is good and remote play works very well on my phone but is very strange on the stick. Standard h264 is a slideshow, even at 480p 30fps, which make absolutely no sense. H265 is ok even at 1600x900 60fps balanced quality but not smooth at all. I have zero packet loss, 1 ms input lag and reading the graph only the red line is quite erratic, which should be something like the video decode done on the stick. Sadly the issue persist even lowering resolution and frame rate, not even 480p is completely fine.

Lost frames is all over the place, sometimes is 0.5% sometimes is 25% and medium quality (average 18mbs) 900P loses more frames than 1080p max quality (average around 30mbs)

I know the TV stick is quite underpowered, so there is something that can be done? what is the experience on other devices, like the new Chromecast Google TV?

Deadpool-fan-466

Hats off to you for daring to play games on the stick

yearoftheJOE

Do you have an AMD or Nvidia GPU? You can try the gforce app with moonlight client it might work better. I do it on a Mii box s no problems although I think specs might be a little better on the S. Though I've used it on an older fire stick before which is crap and it worked fine

Not sure about AMD or if they have something like that.

mattcri

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