Sunshine

Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight

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Last Update: 2025-09-24

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Sunshine is an open-source self‑hosted cloud gaming server that implements NVIDIA’s GameStream protocol. Compatible with Moonlight clients across platforms, it supports low‑latency streaming via software or hardware encoding (AMD/Intel/NVIDIA) and offers a browser‑based control UI for pairing.

Features

Self-hosted cloud gaming server using Moonlight
Supports hardware encoding via AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA GPUs
Fallbacks to software encoding when hardware unavailable
Web UI for game configuration and client pairing
Low-latency streaming optimized for gaming
Multi-platform binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows

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GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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