Frame Tools

Frame Tools for Steam Frame

One-click install

Install Frame Tools

On your Frame in its native Desktop Mode, download this and open it. You get both apps, added to your Steam library.

FramePlayer

Frame-native video player

0.3.0-alpha.8 · 18.2 MB

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Chromium XR

Frame-native WebXR browser

Build 8 · 225.5 MB

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Installing from a PC instead? Frame Control links: · . Zips: FramePlayer · Chromium XR. Chromium XR is open source: source on GitHub.

Videos from your PC on a microSD card

Works with Windows, Mac and Linux, 8K files included.

  1. On your computer, format the card as exFAT. On Windows: right-click the card, choose Format, then exFAT. FAT32 can't hold files over 4 GB. On Linux, ext4 works too.
  2. Copy your videos onto the card and put it in the Frame.
  3. Open FramePlayer. It says Found drive and adds the videos to your library.

If Steam offers to format the card, say no. Steam only uses cards it formatted itself, so it may say this card needs formatting. Formatting erases the card and makes it unreadable on Windows and Mac. FramePlayer reads the card as it is.

Card formats: exFAT, FAT32 and NTFS from Windows and Mac, and ext4 from Linux. Other Linux formats, such as btrfs, aren't supported. Under the hood: SteamOS on the Frame only mounts ext4 cards (the kind Steam formats for games), so FramePlayer mounts exFAT, FAT32 and NTFS cards itself, under /run/media/steamos. A card Steam formatted is ext4, so a Linux PC can read it but Windows and Mac can't.