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There are lots of alternatives to VNC that are much more efficient and depending on your connection can even stream HD video. Unfortunately many of the alternat
by codewithcheese 9y ago
There are lots of alternatives to VNC that are much more efficient and depending on your connection can even stream HD video. Unfortunately many of the alternatives are poorly documented.
RDP will give better results and there are tons of implementations.
NoMachine is probably the best documented and supported. However is proprietary but they have a free version. I believe it can do streaming video.
Spice is poorly documented and seems to not be maintained however it is very efficient and can stream janky video.
Have a look at XRDP with libfxcodec for streaming video (need lots of bandwith) otherwise without libfxcodec for decent low bandwidth
- kschiller 9y agoI've done some research into streaming video on a remote desktop for a project before and I've never heard of libfxcodec, can you go into more detail about it? I can't find anything about it.
- j_s 9y agoI didn't believe you until this brought up the parent comment as the only result: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=xrdp+libfxcodec https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=xrdp+libfxcodec Shortest Googlewhack(-ish) I've ever accidentally stumbled upon myself, for sure! try: https://github.com/neutrinolabs/librfxcodec https://github.com/neutrinolabs/librfxcodec
- codewithcheese 9y agoOops yep, thanks for the correction j_s
- kschiller 9y agoCheers!
- _jal 9y agoI can really only use Spice on Linux. The Mac client is unusable. Haven't tried the Windows build. It would be a nice protocol if there were functional clients, but I fear that train has sailed.