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com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight - 6.1.0-r0 ⚙ aarch64 ⚙ armv7 ⚙ x86 ⚙ x86_64

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  <id>com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight</id>
  <name>Moonlight</name>
  <summary>Stream games and other applications from another PC running Sunshine or GeForce Experience</summary>
  <project_license>GPL-3.0+</project_license>
  <developer_name>Moonlight Game Streaming Team</developer_name>
  <description>
    <p>Moonlight can stream games and other applications from another PC with Sunshine or GeForce Experience software installed.</p>
    <p>Features include:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>Hardware accelerated video decoding with VAAPI, VDPAU, and NVDEC support</li>
      <li>H.264, HEVC, and AV1 codec support</li>
      <li>7.1 surround sound audio support</li>
      <li>10-point multitouch support</li>
      <li>Gamepad support with force feedback for up to 16 players</li>
      <li>Support for both pointer capture (for games) and direct mouse control (for remote desktop)</li>
      <li>Support for passing system-wide keyboard shortcuts like Alt+Tab to the host</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <pkgname>moonlight-qt</pkgname>
  <launchable type="desktop-id">com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight.desktop</launchable>
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  <url type="homepage">https://moonlight-stream.org</url>
  <url type="bugtracker">https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt/issues</url>
  <url type="help">https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setup-Guide</url>
  <categories>
    <category>Game</category>
    <category>Qt</category>
  </categories>
  <provides>
    <binary>moonlight</binary>
  </provides>
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  <keywords>
    <keyword>nvidia</keyword>
    <keyword>gamestream</keyword>
    <keyword>stream</keyword>
    <keyword>sunshine</keyword>
    <keyword>remote play</keyword>
  </keywords>
  <releases>
    <release type="stable" version="6.1.0" timestamp="1726444800">
      <description>
        <p>New features:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Experimental YUV 4:4:4 support for improved text clarity during remote desktop usage</li>
          <li>HDR is now supported with software decoding (requires GPU with Vulkan support)</li>
          <li>Bitrate limit can now be increased to 500 Mbps</li>
          <li>Audio decoding now uses 32-bit floating point format</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Bugfixes:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fixed incorrect color range when streaming with AV1 from a host with an AMD GPU</li>
          <li>Updated community-contributed translations from Weblate</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release type="stable" version="6.0.1" timestamp="1719705600">
      <description>
        <p>New features:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>HDR to SDR tonemapping is now supported by the Vulkan renderer on Linux</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Behavior Changes:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>More time is now provided for PCs to wake up before displaying an error when starting a stream from the CLI</li>
          <li>Moonlight will no longer try to guess VA driver names when running libva 2.20 or later</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Bugfixes:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fixed crash when the Vulkan renderer executed on a system with no Vulkan devices</li>
          <li>Updated community-contributed translations from Weblate</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release type="stable" version="6.0.0" timestamp="1717632000">
      <description>
        <p>New features:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>HDR is now supported on Steam Deck and other HDR-capable Linux systems using a new Vulkan-based renderer</li>
          <li>Vulkan Video decoding of H.264, HEVC, and AV1 is now supported using the new Vulkan renderer</li>
          <li>Full E2E stream encryption is now supported when streaming from Sunshine v0.22 or later</li>
          <li>Initiating a stream via the command-line will now automatically wake the target machine if it is sleeping</li>
          <li>Error codes are now displayed in the connection termination dialog</li>
          <li>Detailed PC state information is now available via the new "View Details" context menu option (similar to the Android client)</li>
          <li>The performance overlay can now be configured to be shown by default when starting a stream</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Behavior Changes:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>The selected bitrate is no longer silently adjusted by Moonlight based upon the video codec or HDR mode</li>
          <li>The selected mouse mode when starting a stream no longer influences the acceleration curve when the mouse mode is toggled using the Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M key combo while streaming</li>
          <li>Hardcoded fallback paths for VAAPI and VDPAU drivers are no longer used</li>
          <li>Per-session keys (rikey and rikeyid values) are now automatically stripped from logs</li>
          <li>Log messages will now be logged to stderr rather than stdout</li>
          <li>EGL is now always used instead of GLX for loading OpenGL in X11 environments on non-x86 platforms</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Bugfixes:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Improved reliability of streaming during momentary drops of WiFi connections</li>
          <li>Improved performance with high polling rate mice</li>
          <li>Improved input latency when a gamepad is connected</li>
          <li>Added missing command-line options to control HDR and AV1 codec usage</li>
          <li>Fixed instant connection termination error when streaming over the Internet behind certain Carrier-Grade NAT devices</li>
          <li>Fixed incorrect MTU detection when streaming over the Internet without a VPN</li>
          <li>Fixed recovery of audio when no audio output device is present when the stream starts</li>
          <li>Fixed merging of gamepad state when multi-controller mode is disabled</li>
          <li>Fixed indefinitely resending mDNS queries when a host could not be resolved</li>
          <li>Fixed inability to pair when the host is not using a RSA-2048 key</li>
          <li>Updated included gamepad mappings</li>
          <li>Updated community-contributed translations from Weblate</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release type="stable" version="5.0.1" timestamp="1698883200">
      <description>
        <p>Bugfixes:</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Fixed connection issue streaming from some hosts running GeForce Experience or Sunshine v0.20 and earlier</li>
          <li>Updated community-contributed translations from Weblate</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
  </releases>
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