Pixel Streaming

Pixel Streaming allows a high-fidelity interactive experience to be streamed directly to users' device, regardless of its graphical capabilities.

Frontend Integration

When integrating Pixel Streaming components into your web experience, care must be taken to ensure an excellent user experience.

Our primary pixel streaming provider, GeForce Now, only supports a limited set of common aspect ratios, and is principally designed to be used fullscreen on the user's device. If you are embedding the Pixel Streaming SDK within your own UI, you may experience letterboxing, whereby black bars are present on either the top/bottom, or either side of the streaming video.

To minimise this, consider the aspect ratios that GeForce Now supports (seeSupported Aspect Ratios, below) and try to ensure that the streaming element matches one of the given ratios. This may mean, for example, moving navigation menus from the top of the screen, to the side, to more closely match a supported aspect ratio.

Note that the aspect ratio is fixed from the moment the stream begins, and will remain fixed for the entire duration of the experience, regardless of whether the streaming element changes size or orientation (for example, as a result of the user resizing their browser window, or rotating their device.)

Supported Aspect Ratios

GeForce Now supports the following aspect ratios, and will select one that is as near as possible to that of the streaming element in your HTML:

• 16:9

• 16:10

• 4:3

• 21:9

• 19.5:9