--- title: GitHub - hgaiser/moonshine: Headless streaming server... description: Moonshine is a headless game streaming server written in Rust, compatible with Moonlight clients. It runs on Linux and supports isolated streaming sessions per... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/github---hgaiser-moonshine-headless-streaming-server-for-moonlight-clients-written-in-rust--famjmxwpd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GitHub - hgaiser/moonshine: Headless streaming server for Moonlight clients, written in Rust. | daily.dev og:description: Moonshine is a headless game streaming server written in Rust, compatible with Moonlight clients. It runs on Linux and supports isolated streaming sessions per... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/github---hgaiser-moonshine-headless-streaming-server-for-moonlight-clients-written-in-rust--famjmxwpd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FaMJMXwpD.png og:image:alt: GitHub - hgaiser/moonshine: Headless streaming server for Moonlight clients, written in Rust. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub - hgaiser/moonshine: Headless streaming server for Moonlight clients, written in Rust. **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Moonshine is a headless game streaming server written in Rust, compatible with Moonlight clients. It runs on Linux and supports isolated streaming sessions per application, hardware video encoding (H.264, H.265, AV1) via Vulkan, HDR streaming, full input support (mouse, keyboard, gamepad), and audio streaming with Opus. Unlike Sunshine, each session runs in its own compositor, keeping the host desktop usable. It requires a GPU with Vulkan video encoding (NVIDIA RTX, AMD RDNA2+, or Intel Arc) and systemd. Installation is available via AUR or from source using Cargo. Configuration is done via TOML, with support for manual app definitions and automatic scanners for Steam and .desktop files. Not intended for use on public networks without a VPN. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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