Add support for Linux

[avicarpio]

This plugin is not working on any Linux Desktop platform, this include Steam Deck consoles.

Please give support for Linux, only for Ubuntu is ok, it's the most used distro, but at least we need some compatibility.

This plugin is losing a lot of potential clients, considering that this could be used on Steam Deck and Linux Servers for Cloud Gaming. Just saying...

[Chris-RH]

Hi @avicarpio,

Unfortunately, there are currently no plans for Linux support as it is difficult to ensure compatibility across such a wide range of distributions. We are a small team so we can't easily add support for all platforms. Linux is also a bit of a tricky one because it doesn't have any built-in codec support, so we would have to add support for VLC/FFMPEG or something like that, and hardware decoding can be tricky too I suspect. We just haven't had the resources to investigate this.

Kind regards, Chris

[avicarpio]

Hi, I think that adding support only for Ubuntu using the common NVCodec shouldn't be so much more challenging that it is on Windows or other platform. But idk, I think you should take a look at it, nowadays Ubuntu is not the same it was 10 years ago 😉 Thank you for the response!

[klaribot]

Would you guys be willing to discuss implementing Linux support in a PR if someone were to come along and attempt to get support working for Linux using cross-distro libraries and tools?