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Blackscreen when starting Streaming [Solved]
I am running Steamlink on a raspberry pi 4b 4gb ram
The installation works fine and I can open steamlink, however when I press start streamingI simply get an blackscreen. I can hear the sound and can interact (ex. Start games), however I can't see anything.
I have seen that a fix is reverting to a previous build: I tried 1.1.85. With this version I was able to see, however in this version my controller didnt work. It is seen by steamlink as connected, however when starting the streaming it doenst work.

So either I have a blackscreen or my controller doesnt work.

I have also tried the Beta version, however I still have a blackscreen there.
I was wondering of anyone know how to fix either the blackscreen or the controller issue in the 1.1.85 version or of there is another version where both things work? Maybe I am also just missing something simple

The controller I am using is a PS4 which get detected as such
Last edited by Hot Cheese; Dec 19, 2023 @ 11:18am
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slouken
Nov 30, 2023 @ 8:42am 
Can you check to see if you have HEVC enabled in the advanced streaming settings?
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Hot Cheese
Dec 2, 2023 @ 11:21am 
It was disabled.
I just tried streaming with HEVC enabled and get the same results. I have a black screen but can still interact.
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slouken
Dec 5, 2023 @ 9:49am 
What OS are you using?
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Hot Cheese
Dec 6, 2023 @ 10:54am 
rasperian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
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susno
Dec 16, 2023 @ 6:19am 
I had the same issue, and for the benefit of anyone else that stumbles across this, the issue seems to be related to the Pi4 and 4K output.

I confirmed that connecting the Pi4 to a 1920x1080 monitor and starting steamlink to stream worked as expected but when connected to a 4K TV, i received a black screen when attempting to stream (although audio and controllers appeared to be functioning).

I messed with various resolution streaming settings to no avail. The only way I could resolve this was to edit /boot/config.txt and around line 22, uncomment and adjust these two values:

hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

This forced the pi to boot at 1920x1080 and once running, steamlink was able to receive video correctly.
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Hot Cheese
Dec 19, 2023 @ 11:18am 
Thank you for your suggestion

Changing the boot config did for what ever reason not work form me. However I found out that simply changing the resolution in the "Screen Configuration" to 19920x1080 worked. I dont know why and find it weird as the boot config should overwrite this but I suppose it just this way.

One more question: Does this mean that 4K streaming is not supported?
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Date Posted: Nov 5, 2023 @ 5:19am
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