Any plans to support the new Amazon Fire TV?

[Grief.exe]

Has plenty of power, an ethernet port, and a controller.

Would be a perfect solution for in-home streaming.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/dp/2014/B/feature-techspecs-popup.jpg

The question could pertain to all ARM devices in general. Does Valve plan to support those devices for in-home streaming?

[Trouterspace]

I'd buy one for that

[Ricky]

This was exactly what I thought - SteamOS on that.

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Ricky eredeti hozzászólása:

This was exactly what I thought - SteamOS on that.

SteamOS might be a stretch as it is ARM based, streaming on the other hand would be much simpler.

[Ricky]

I doubt valve would make a version of steam that stream for such a specific piece of hardware tho =/

If this could run linux natively and hardware decode worked... oh god =p

[NeptNutz]

Well, speaking of the the Big Picture, I think you are going to see a Steam-client channel pop up in a lot of places once IHS gets rolling. Perhaps it was one of the reasons to go with Debian for SteamOS: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual

We've all seen the potential with Netflix EVERYWHERE; and OnLive branching out in games and office applications, and showing up on mobiles and Vizio TV and Co-Star, and the OnLive microconsole as well. But, as we have also seen, these capabilities quickly hit walls in terms of quality, stability, and user interaction.

Clearly, the corpus of PC games are going to stay Windows-based for a time. But when you start to add high-resolution books, HD music, 4K movies and games, and high-powered desktop applications into the streaming sphere, it is quickly going to become a format, platform, and distribution nightmare! (Think Netflix at Thanksgiving x 100.) To me, SteamOS looks to be something that can alleviate that. Between Family Sharing and IHS, digitally-delivered content will be richer, more robust, and more flexible than it is now. I think vendors, like Amazon, will open their arms to this layer of middle-service-ware while focusing on their core competencies.

Essentially, it is going to greatly reduce rush hour on the Internet.

[Grief.exe]

From the support page the Fire TV supports H.264 Decode which, I believe, is what is necessary for In-Home Streaming.

[76561193705059552]

Please do this, I also thought that now developers can make one app that is accessible on both phone, tablet, desktop, AND now xbox one; it would be great to have a steam big picture app that is just for streaming. obviously If this came out on the amazon fire tv I wouldn't buy an xbox one, but it would be nice in the future to have both be able to stream. But with the way valve feels about windows 8 and the way microsoft is painfully acknowledging that steam took the pc gaming crowd away from them it doesn't seem likely. But yes amazon fire tv please. As I read the live twitter feed this morning I was hoping they would announce it, but sadly they did not, but It still seems possible since they annouced that it would not be a closed ecosystem.

[76561193705059552]

Oh and forgot to mention that to me the amazon fire tv is what I thought at steam box should look like to begin with. simple small, but actually powerful enough to run small base games, and yet dependable enough to be an extremely efficient way to stream the desktop to the tv. I was hopeing for this in stuff like the new roku stick and in chromecast, but they just don't have enough in my opinion to be dependable until they release the next version of it. But the amazon fire tv seems perfectly powerful (quad core, dedicated gpu) enough to tackle quite a bit ( I mean at least a lot more than the competition) , as long as people are willing to develop for it.

[Tig Ol' Bitties]

Everyone wants this on a whole range of different devices but would Valve make streaming so easy on such an affordable device and annoy the makers of various Steam Machines at the same time?

[NeptNutz]

Tig Ol Bitties eredeti hozzászólása:

Everyone wants this on a whole range of different devices but would Valve make streaming so easy on such an affordable device and annoy the makers of various Steam Machines at the same time?

I'll stick to the middle-service-ware layer I expounded upon earlier. This isn't a revolutionary build-out or ravenous replacement scheme here, it's just filling in gaps that were, and are, starting to widen.

Take, for instance, In-Home Streaming. We have lots of great content locked in our Steam accounts, and the only thing keeping it from being set free is the fact that we have it holed up in our rigs designed for the latest-and-greatest games. With IHS, we take a fairly standard host (i5, HD 3000), and something like this Amazon fire box, and we get 90% of our libraries (music, movies, books) freed from the handful of games that need the monster rig. THEN, for the face-melting games, we have the fire-breathing Steam Machines!!! So we get a gain--in both directions!

I think this idea takes the fair-to-middling realm of wishy-washy, 1080p-ish consoles with so-so media options and stands it on its ear!

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Tig Ol Bitties eredeti hozzászólása:

Everyone wants this on a whole range of different devices but would Valve make streaming so easy on such an affordable device and annoy the makers of various Steam Machines at the same time?

You do make a fair point, but the current level of Steam machines have been designed to natively run any game available on Linux with no issues. Many even offer a dual-boot Windows installation off the bat.

Fire TV support for IHS would cover the niche.

[A D L]

The Android client just needs to support it period, get it running and the crazies at XDA will handle the fine tuning per device.

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Alexander DeLarge eredeti hozzászólása:

The Android client just needs to support it period, get it running and the crazies at XDA will handle the fine tuning per device.

That is a good point, let those guys handle the brunt of the work they love it.

[ThisIsHarryDamnit]

It really depends on whether or not it can side load APKs. If you all are interested, check out LIMELIGHT which is a program for Android that is an open source implementation of Nvidia Shield Streaming. It will even do high quality video streaming to a Rasperry Pi and (I believe I heard this) supports controllers.

[https://github.com/limelight-stream/limelight-android]

[Grief.exe]

I was reading a comment that the game supports sideloading of APKs through the developer menu.
They then go into a seperate menu screen entirely, but they have to have some kind of controller support out of the box as their is no touch screen implementation.