Streaming not working with error 'Waiting for IDR frame' and 'Connection is poor' error message

[marcelhoelscher]

Please provide the following info.

NVidia Geforce Experience version: 3.27.0.112
Moonlight Embedded version: 2.5.3
Moonlight Embedded source: repository: https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/moonlight-game-streaming/moonlight-embedded/deb/raspbian buster InRelease
Moonlight Embedded running on: Raspberry Pi 4
Moonlight Embedded running on distribution: Raspbian with RetroPie installed on it

Verbose output -verbose of Moonlight Embedded: see attached console output
console_output.log

What is the expected result? Game streaming works

What happens instead of that? Game streaming does not work, see console output above

Further description
I am streaming from my Win 10 PC to my Raspberry Pi 4. This worked for the last 12 months without any flaw. The last time i played via moonlight was three weeks ago. Yesterday i tried again and it ended with the above console ouput.

The console output says, that my lan connection is poor. But that can't be: I tested it and it is working fine at ca 1 GBit. I did not change anything on the raspberry and also i did not touch my network configuration.

Only thing i changed was to prepare my PC for Win 11 (means TPM 2.0 support, safe boot etc). Maybe i also updated the NVidia-Software, but i am not quite sure.

In order to solve the issue, i updated the os of my Raspberry including Moonlight, also the NVidia-Software on my Win 10 PC.

Any help is appreciated.

[W4stedWizard]

Same issue here,
GFE 3.27.0.112
GRD 528.49
ML-embedded 2.5.2-master-b9703e7
Raspi3B running Raspbian Bullseye
Windows 10 with the latest updates as of posting

I think this coincided with a GFE update or a Nvidia Driver Update - it happened basically one day to the next.

[marcelhoelscher]

Seems like something similar happened a few years ago:

#447 (comment)

At that time it was caused by a change in the nvidia shield protocol.

[W4stedWizard]

Just realised I had some issues updating moonlight, updated to 2.5.3, replaced this issue with a connection Segfault.
Unsure which is worse.
Using QT as a workaround for now, assuming a fix will come or it's a localised issue on my device

[rona1707]

same issue here:

GFE 3.27.0.112
GRD 528.49

Windows 10 Pro
Raspberry Pi3b+

Moonlight 2.5.3

seems to be an issue with the GFE Update

[Interein2]

Same issue:

Raspberry Pi3b+
Win10Pro

It was working till last Geforce Experience update (until I oppened GFE to check and it updated to 3.27.0.112)

Moonlight-Qt is working (Rpi3B+ is hard on it)

[marcelhoelscher]

We should not be too hopeful that this issue gets a fix. NVidia dropped support for their Gamestream feature, so "Nvidia native" streaming to the moonlight client has no future. See this article for details:

https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/NVIDIA-GameStream-End-Of-Service-Announcement-FAQ

I will give the sunshine streaming host a try. The good point in this: I am no longer bound to Nvidia GPUs in order to stream my games to my TV.

[CaptainArni]

Same problem here with GFE 3.27.0.112.
Is it possible to downgrade GFE?

[marcelhoelscher]

Not sure if this is possible or desirable.

Maybe you wanna try sunshine. I did today and was surprised how good it performed. Installation on the host PC is trivial and you can configure it as a service that is started together with Windows and running in the background.

I will test it further during this week; hope, that it is quite stable.

[rona1707]

@marcelhoelscher

Did you found any guide how to setup sunshine application? I've got 2 application on first start of Sunshine (Desktop, Steam Big Picture), but the properties (e.g Output, Command, Working Directory, ... are empty

[marcelhoelscher]

Here is a link to the official documentation:
https://docs.lizardbyte.dev/projects/sunshine/en/latest/

Most interesting may be the "Usage" section: https://docs.lizardbyte.dev/projects/sunshine/en/latest/about/usage.html

The existing two configs are supposed to work out of the Box. You can add additional games there by giving the path to the corresponding .exe.

Not every property has to be filled. In minimum you need a name and the path to the exe file.

Update: I've appended a screenshot with an example configuration for 'Divinity: Original Sin 2':

The exe of the game is really called 'SupportTool.exe'. I added the parameter '--skip-launcher' to skip the Larian-Launcher in order to jump into the game directly.

[marcelhoelscher]

sorry closed this issue by mistake

[CaptainArni]

I just tried out sunshine and it is working really well. I didn't notice a difference between gamestream and sunshine when gaming.
The only thing that does not seem to work is watching Netflix / Amazon Prime. Audio plays but there is a black screen only. This happens with the moonlight client on pi and I also tested with Android, same problem.

Edit: It seems to work in Firefox.

[rona1707]

Thx @marcelhoelscher

I tried sunshine and managed to get it working with moonlight on my Pi3. The pairing process wasn't quite obvious, as I needed to unpair for GFE and re-pair for sunshine. But at the end it worked out (found the hint at the usage page) well and the performance is fine after some small adaptions. The Desktop application worked out of the box. In GFE I needed to set up the profile with the "mstsc.exe" to stream the Desktop. I basically used the Desktop application and started my PC games there, which was sufficient enough.

[marcelhoelscher]

@rona1707: Glad, that i could help.

I also tried it out a bit more. Sunshine is a cool piece of software. I am very happy, that Sunshine enables me to also stream from my Linux installation.

Can you tell me which performance optimization you made?

[rona1707]

I messed around with the NVENC encoder settings and the quantization parameter in the "Advanced" configuration tab. It felt a bit handier reducing the quality in terms of gaining lower latency.