Kubernetes-Native Retro Game Streaming Written in Go
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Re: Kubernetes-Native Retro Game Streaming Written in Go
#2Can you explain why this is "Kubernetes-Native" (whatever that means)? It's not quite clear from the link.
Re: Kubernetes-Native Retro Game Streaming Written in Go
#3I use Retroarch daily and have setup multiple remote streaming solutions for myself. I should understand what this is for.
Readme is incomprehensible. What's the use case? Is this a web client I self host tp connect to a remote Retroarch instance? Fully remote or local? What kind of inputs work?
From the headline it's impossible to distinguish between this idea or maybe some bundle of Javascript emulators I'd self host or run on a box.
Seems cool but please think about the Readme!
Re: Kubernetes-Native Retro Game Streaming Written in Go
#4Can you explain why this is "Kubernetes-Native" (whatever that means)? It's not quite clear from the link.
Can't find any docs (their site redirect to the GitHub Org), but from what I've seen, they've designed it to be launched in Kubernetes with a bunch of Helm Charts: https://github.com/pod-arcade/charts
Re: Kubernetes-Native Retro Game Streaming Written in Go
#5Can you explain why this is "Kubernetes-Native" (whatever that means)? It's not quite clear from the link.
Because K8S gets you on front page of HN?
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#8Can you explain why this is "Kubernetes-Native" (whatever that means)? It's not quite clear from the link.
In the larger sense, "Kubernetes-Native" is similar to "Linux-native." Kubernetes is the platform.
For this project specifically, it seems they have done some interesting work to make things run in containers, like udev input and streaming wayland sessions to a web browser.
Overall, it looks pretty interesting.
Re: Kubernetes-Native Retro Game Streaming Written in Go
#9From looking at it for a few minutes, the gist seems to be software-rendered wayland applications in a Container, streamed into a browser via Go? Or a Desktop client? Not certain yet.
Interesting question here would be the performance - is this efficient enough to get low latency and high framerates? if yes, this could be useful for a bunch of stuff, where you want to spin up a heavyweight GUI app on some kubernetes cluster quickly (think remote dev setup) and stream it to your laptop/tablet.
Edit: Looks like a Desktop client application, also written in Go. But the streaming is implemented with WebRTC and some custom signalling for keyboard/mouse/gamepad feedback, so this could theoretically also be adopted for a Webbrowser I guess?
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#10I didn’t check out how good this is, but goddamn I HATE when people release something with no docs. Wont even bother checking this out