Does Steam-in-Home streaming allow for 10-Bit HDR?

[ColinMacLaren]

Hi,

since the h.264 codec is capable of 10-Bit streaming and one can forcibly enable global HDR in Wndows 10 Creators Update I am wondering wether Steam In Home Streaming allows for HDR-streaming when the client side is capable of it.

[/dev/null]

Not a chance in hell man. Link is limited to 1080p, which means that 10b and 4k are out of the picture, much more so 4k-HDR. Furthermore, there are so _few_ games that even have a 4k resolution, and none that I know of that have native HDR.

[ColinMacLaren]

HDR is very well possible in 1080p. There are also many HDR-enabled games already. Furthermore I wasn't talking about the Steam Link, but about InHome Streaming in General like streaming from a gaming pc to an Intel NUC with HDMI 2.0 and HDR support.


Battlefield 1, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Destiny 2, Middle Earth: Shadows of War, Forza Motorsport 7, Assassins Creed: Origins, Final Fantasy XV, Elder Scrolls Online. Injustice 2 had it, but it was disabled due to bugs. Not so sure about rise of the Tomb Raider.

[Mio Rin]

I don't know about 10-bit HDR (my monitors don't support it), but I can stream over IHS in 4K just fine, with a few graphical adjustments to get a good framerate (running a game and encoding it in 4K is quite a workout for a 1070GTX :P ).

[󠀡Dibelabbes]

Anything new on this front? Most new TV as well as most new AAA titles support HDR (just like Nvidia Shield TV supports HDR streaming from PC). This should absolutely be supported in the Steam apps by now to keep Remote Play from being a transparent solution.

[mutecipher]

I would love to see this as well. My PC that I'm streaming from can more than handle 4K HDR and more often than not I'm streaming to my TV which supports both. Would be a great addition.

[ColinMacLaren]

You don't need Inhome Streaming anymore. Just either get a SHIELD TV (that's what I did) or use Moonlight for PC https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt/releases

There is even a Steam Option ;) You absolutely need an NVIDIA GPU on the host side, though.

[󠀡Dibelabbes]

Moonlight is a great alternative in general, but the Windows app doesn't support HDR either and I also found it less compatible / easy to use on the host side (one of my games can't for some reason be added to it for example).

I am not really interested in buying a Shield TV when I already have a PC connected and other than game streaming my smart TV can do the same as the Shield TV.