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I'm trying to "cast" my laptop's screen (Debian+GNOME) to my living room TV, either to an HDMI dongle or to the RPi connecting to it (LibreElec+Kodi) *without* resorting to a Chromecast and ideally only using FOSS.

It's revealing to be surprisingly difficult. Any suggestions?

@zacchiro maybe sunshine and moonlight depending on the content.

It’s designed for game streaming really but it might do what you want.

I used it before to play cyberpunk 2077 on the tv and at the time I was running Linux (cp2077 running in proton). I used an Xbox as the client as could never get the apple tv to do audio

@zacchiro basically you’d run sunshine on the computer and moonlight on the pi

@Dragon is this stuff FOSS? (not a gamer anymore, so I'm meeting this tech for the first time)

@elphez @zacchiro @neil I never thought to try the tv itself mind you it’s soc is weedy (it’s android tv).

Xbox was fussy about codecs/bitrates but did work reasonably well.

Apple TV I could never seem to get it to output audio might retry with a windows host and see if it’s any different