Switch OLED Moonlight streaming performance

[gsora]

Hey there folks,

I recently modded my Mariko Switch and since then been playing with various homebrews and in particular Moonlight streaming on HorizonOS.

Since I'm liking it a lot and I often play undocked I figured I should upgrade to the OLED model and get that sweet sweet display, alongside the Ethernet-enabled dock.

I noticed that overall the Moonlight experience is incredible at 720p, but I was wondering if someone has experience with it in docked mode w/Ethernet, on a 4K TV.

Or better, is it even possible?

It would make for an awesome TV home streaming device as well!

I don't have any OS constraints, I'm fine with L4T or Android, I'm trying to gather some data points to validate that Switch is capable of streaming 4K moonlight over ethernet.

Thanks!

 

[thesjaakspoiler]

When docked the Switch can use 1080p instead of 720p.
The question is whether Moonlight supports that.
It's still half the resolution as a 4K output.
Someone at Reddit mentioned that he had to overclock his Switch in order to stream 1080p @ 60fps.

 

[gsora]

Thanks for the link!

Considering the Reddit post is 3 years old, maybe something changed… I’m sure the switch SoC is capable of handling a 4K 60hz video stream, even though maybe horizon os isn’t…

Maybe the only way to know this is testing first hand.

 

[Herculeex]

Thanks for the link!

Considering the Reddit post is 3 years old, maybe something changed… I’m sure the switch SoC is capable of handling a 4K 60hz video stream, even though maybe horizon os isn’t…

Maybe the only way to know this is testing first hand.

If you can get 4k output resolution I will be surprised. I didnt think it had either the processing power or the ability to output that res.

 

[HisegiSan]

OLED and oled dock can output up to 4k60 under Linux and Android.

Moonlight performance in android is stellar. About 2ms decode time at 4k60 and 80mbps bitrate. Linux moonlight performance is alright but fails at 4k

 

[Herculeex]

OLED and oled dock can output up to 4k60 under Linux and Android.

Moonlight performance in android is stellar. About 2ms decode time at 4k60 and 80mbps bitrate. Linux moonlight performance is alright but fails at 4k

Is there video of this? I had no idea it was possible! Fuck yeah!

 

[gsora]

If you can get 4k output resolution I will be surprised. I didnt think it had either the processing power or the ability to output that res.

According to the nvidia spec sheet, assuming I got everything right, the Tegra X1 should be capable of hardware decoding 4K/60fps h.264 and h.265 video, it’s pretty much the perfect platform for this kind of stuff!
I would say the major blocker is driver support, and that’s why I ruled out Horizon OS from the get go: as much as it would’ve been great, I doubt Nintendo employed resources to implement drivers for a use case that has never been officially sanctioned.

OLED and oled dock can output up to 4k60 under Linux and Android.

Moonlight performance in android is stellar. About 2ms decode time at 4k60 and 80mbps bitrate. Linux moonlight performance is alright but fails at 4k

Damn that’s even better than my TV!

Did you have to do any particular setup on the Android side?
What Linux distribution did you try?

 

[HisegiSan]

Did you have to do any particular setup on the Android side?
What Linux distribution did you try?

Nope no special setup required. Just install android 11 and the moonlight app straight from the play store. Pick 4k resolution from moonlight settings and off you go.

Regarding Linux, tried it on ubuntu bionic and jammy. If moonlight is your only use case, stick to android.