I can't get my Raspberry Pi to do what I want it do (YouTube and Steam Link)
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:58 am
For starters, I am a complete beginner when it comes to Raspberry Pi's; I bought my first one today. I also know very little when it comes to coding and terminal usage. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB, that came in a kit. I wanted to use it on my living room TV for YouTube, Netflix and such, and Steam Link, so I can stream games from my PC upstairs.
I installed Steam Link without an issue using the sudo apt install steamlink command. I ran the application no problem, and connected it to my computer, but when I tried to connect the two, it didn't work. Even on a wired connection, all I got was a black screen with some occasional noise. I could manipulate the mouse and even hear audio, and my computer was streaming it, but there was no picture. Sometimes, after a while, a very choppy and distorted feed from my computer would appear, but not always.
Thinking Steam Link wasn't going to work for me, I tried Parsec, as they have a Raspberry Pi version, but it isn't ready for Pi 4 yet. While searching that, I learned about Moonlight, so I tried to install that using this tutorial, but every time I got to the cmake ../command, the Pi would tell me it didn't understand. I then found a tutorial for Moonlight QT, but when I got to the sudo apt install moonlight-qt command, it would tell me it couldn't find the depositories (I hope I have my terminology right.)
While trying to move on to the video streaming side of things, I first tried YouTube. Sometimes, it wouldn't even load the videos, but sometimes it did. When it did, only the audio would play and the picture would either be frozen, or change every now and then, but it would always be distorted and choppy. I successfully installed the Chromium (Media Version), and tried again. There was no change on YouTube, but I was able to stream Netflix without distortion, but it did stutter a bit. Both of these were on a wired connection.
I have been Googling all day. As I said, I know very little about this stuff and I am learning as I go. From what I've seen, I'm wondering if increasing the GPU RAM to 1 GB would help (by editing the config.txt file), but I am not even sure how to do this. I am hoping that someone here might have some helpful pointers before I spend all day tomorrow Googling and troubleshooting again.
I installed Steam Link without an issue using the sudo apt install steamlink command. I ran the application no problem, and connected it to my computer, but when I tried to connect the two, it didn't work. Even on a wired connection, all I got was a black screen with some occasional noise. I could manipulate the mouse and even hear audio, and my computer was streaming it, but there was no picture. Sometimes, after a while, a very choppy and distorted feed from my computer would appear, but not always.
Thinking Steam Link wasn't going to work for me, I tried Parsec, as they have a Raspberry Pi version, but it isn't ready for Pi 4 yet. While searching that, I learned about Moonlight, so I tried to install that using this tutorial, but every time I got to the cmake ../command, the Pi would tell me it didn't understand. I then found a tutorial for Moonlight QT, but when I got to the sudo apt install moonlight-qt command, it would tell me it couldn't find the depositories (I hope I have my terminology right.)
While trying to move on to the video streaming side of things, I first tried YouTube. Sometimes, it wouldn't even load the videos, but sometimes it did. When it did, only the audio would play and the picture would either be frozen, or change every now and then, but it would always be distorted and choppy. I successfully installed the Chromium (Media Version), and tried again. There was no change on YouTube, but I was able to stream Netflix without distortion, but it did stutter a bit. Both of these were on a wired connection.
I have been Googling all day. As I said, I know very little about this stuff and I am learning as I go. From what I've seen, I'm wondering if increasing the GPU RAM to 1 GB would help (by editing the config.txt file), but I am not even sure how to do this. I am hoping that someone here might have some helpful pointers before I spend all day tomorrow Googling and troubleshooting again.