Steam In-Home Streaming beta registrations open

[Gunzkewl]

 

Beta registrations for the Steam In-Home Streaming, the service which allows users to stream games from one machine to another within a household, are now open via the service's group on the Steam Community website.

According to Valve, the service will be open to beta testers "later this year" with beta participants selected at random. Those who are interested in taking part in the beta test are invited to join the Steam group set up to register participants interest.

The in-home streaming service is set to be an integral service complimenting the SteamOS when Valve launches the Linux-based operating system and partnered hardware next year. In October, rudimentary details about the service were revealed in update to the beta version of the Steam client. According to screen caps from the beta Steam client, users will have the ability to optimize the performance of a stream by setting bandwidth and framerate limits, and players can browse streaming sources in Big Picture mode.

 

Source:http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/11/5090078/steam-in-home-streaming-beta-to-roll-out-this-year

 

 

Link to join the group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream

 

Good luck everyone

[TheRuke]

Thanks, I joined!

[Ethnod]

Also joined, thanks. I hope this is decent. Although as Shadowplay is hardware implemented I'm thinking it will work out better but time will tell

[LordGarth6]

http://steamdb.info/blog/30/

 

(Warning!) Technical stuff on how to get to the streaming menu

 

To get to the In-Home Streaming settings, you need to edit a layout file for Big Picture. This is unrecommended and Valve probably frowns upon doing this but it's the only way at the moment.

Make sure Steam is running. Open up your Steam folder, go to tenfoot/resource/layout/settings and open settings.xml.
Find a setting that's available for you. VoiceSettingsButton for example.
Change the onactivate property to "ShowSettings( RemoteClients );".
Now go into Big Picture and open up the Settings menu. Click the menu button you changed and voila! A menu.

 

this will let u access it, i recommend u change the language button as that is what i think is the least unused button once set to your language. i havent tryed streaming just yet though

[silencerbob]

Is this the same thing as nvidia "game stream"? I mean will it be for nvidia only users or they have some other tech?

[BernardoSLR]

This is great. Can't wait to stream sports games to my laptop plugged to my TV so I can play with my brother in a big screen!

[zeros]

So this is not working yet as the streaming support is not done yet but the menu is already there.

Well I checked the menu.. it doesn't seem to recognizing my phone.. though I don't see why it should as it's for other windows or Linux based PC's. But it would be awesome for me to be able to play it off my phone .