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Own a shiny new PlayStation 5 and want to stream games from it to your desktop or laptop? Or perhaps you're clinging onto your PlayStation 4 and want to do the same? Chiaki is here to help.

Linux gaming? Not quite but it's another brilliant FOSS application that can enable you to do whatever you want, with what you already own. I've used Chiaki occasionally with my own PlayStation 4 to stream it to my Linux desktop and for the most part, it actually works surprisingly well depending on the network setup.

The big Chiaki 2.0.0 update went out and pulls in some big features on top of PlayStation 5 support being new, here's some of the big features:

  • PS5 Remote Play Support
  • Add Nintendo Switch Borealis GUI
  • FFMPEG in builds updated to 4.3.1
  • Add Video Profile Auto Downgrade when 1080p is selected for PS4
  • Add correct Bitrate for 1080p
  • Relicense under AGPL v3 only + OpenSSL
  • Connect all available controllers in GUI
  • Add Double Click for Fullscreen in GUI
  • Add Audio Device Selection to GUI
  • Add Congestion Control
  • Add Raspberry Pi Decoder
  • Add Text Input Support to Library
  • Improve GUI CLI for streaming
  • Add Sleep Mode Trigger
  • Add generic Hardware Decoder Selection to GUI

There's also a good few bug fixes included as well of course. Great to see Chiaki continue to evolve, another case of a few doing what a big company will not.

Chiaki itself has also moved. The developer is no longer using GitHub, and is instead now providing everything up on their own sourcehut - which you can now find here.

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3zekiel Dec 30, 2020
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Quoting: 3zekielOtherwise, if your PC is powerful enough, I recommend rpcs3 emulator, it works quite well for me.

RPCS3 was the reason i got a PS3 played some games and really liked them but preformance was poor with somegames (about Version 0.0.6-7830) at the time and getting games was hard and games i wanted to play didnt work so i bought a ps3 because it was easier. Best thing that happened was when i was buying games from gamestop's website and the system bugged and had to only pay $0.24 i still dont know how this happened

Ah yes, some games still do not play nice. I do have my PS3 still around for that. I don't know if there is a list somewhere of streamable games on PS3, it's true in those case I would have some use for it too
tuubi Dec 30, 2020
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Quoting: Purple Library Guy[Excellent wall of text.]
There's not much to add, but I'll do it anyway. A sort of "TL;DR", although not reading that post would be a shame:

Judging a person by their actions is fine, and is not discrimination. So even if you buy into the ridiculous idea that corporations are people and should be treated with the same respect, you are definitely allowed (if not morally compelled) to judge them by their actions and act upon them. Usually "act" means "speak out and boycott", but it can also mean things like "report to the authorities" if you suspect their actions to be downright illegal.
damarrin Dec 31, 2020
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Quoting: Hori

Wow, comparing avoiding companies to racism. Just... wow.
tuubi Dec 31, 2020
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Quoting: HoriWhat I mean when I say "it's like racism" is that if you hate a product just because it's Microsoft, is just the same as hating a person just because he's black.
No. One is hating a corporation for their actions and the other is hating a person for their skin colour. Surely you can see how this is a false equivalence.
Purple Library Guy Dec 31, 2020
Quoting: HoriWhat I mean when I say "it's like racism" is that if you hate a product just because it's Microsoft, is just the same as hating a person just because he's black.

Hating someone based on ethnicity/colour/etc no matter how good-hearted and/or respectable they might be, is psychologically the same process as hating a product no matter how good it is just because it's made by a certain company.
In those cases, the hate starts from the moment the decided factor is known (ethnicity / company) and before futher details (personality / usefullness) even enters the equation.
They both have the same psychological root.

Sure, the effect is not the same. Obviously hating a company is not nearly as bad as hating an individual - and doing it does not mean it's directed at people (or at least not any more than the decision-makers). But that was not my point. My point was the diagnostic, not the symptom.
Maybe I was just not clear with my statement.
Still an error. It's not about the product. Nobody's hating the product, they're just hating (and more importantly, mistrusting) the company. That mistrust is based on a long track record of untrustworthiness. If a con man wants to sell you a bridge and you refuse because they're a con man, it's not because you hate bridges, it's because you think the con man is going to cheat you. And if your enemy is selling perfectly good chocolate cakes and you refuse to buy one, it's not because you hate chocolate cakes, it's because you don't want to give your enemy money.

So clearly, if someone who was OK with Github before is now against Github because Microsoft owns it, it's not because they have changed their feelings about the inherent nature of Github. It is because they distrust Microsoft and so fear that Microsoft will use Github in a baneful way, and so it's better to get out from under any lockin or whatever that they might impose. And it's because they hate Microsoft and want MS to fail to make money or dominate markets.

Your analogy is utterly wrong, and it leads to completely mistaken and counterproductive prescriptions. Taking you seriously means letting companies, political parties and other organizations get away with anything and never calling them to account. It means buying more products from a company after their milk with Malamine poisoned your children.


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