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Big picture mode is cool, i wish it could play movies (that's the only thing i want) but it only plays music files.
"One last interesting thing I learned: Despite early reports that this was a ''Steam streaming machine,'' I confirmed with Valve that you can in fact stream anything from your PC, including just your pure desktop environment (or a browser running Netflix, Spotify, whatever)."
Here's to hoping they haven't changed their minds.
It works just like in-home streaming, so if you have 2 computers test it out.
Indeed, that would be cool if the Steam Link could stream whatever is appearing to the screen, that's not really complicated after all. And honestly, i don't see the purpose of a device streaming steam games only. I want this to avoid buying another pc for my living room.
I just tried plex, i does not work very well too. If that steam link ain't working too, i think i'll have to buy a living-room pc.
In-home streaming literally remotes you into your PC. You can Alt-Tab and do PC stuff on the machine you are streaming to. I tested this with Bioshock Infinite a couple months back
If you have two PCs, install steam on both and then install a non-steam game shortcut on one, it should show you are able to stream that program as well. I have tested this with notepad the same day I tested Bioshock. (was testing my network and how it worked)
So unless they force it so you cannot alt-tab out of the game, and make it so you can't run non-steam games - which would be locking you out of your computer while you're streaming - , you will be able to do what you currently can do with In-home streaming.
So to simplify it: Make a VLC shortcut in steam, stream that on another PC//SteamOS
Or watch the videos offered on steam.