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I'm actually in the middle of a complete rewrite (I was hoping to stay under the radar until then). I'm ditching X11 and ffmpeg and actually rendering real text

by tombh 9y ago

I'm actually in the middle of a complete rewrite (I was hoping to stay under the radar until then). I'm ditching X11 and ffmpeg and actually rendering real text as a layer over the TTY blocks. See: https://github.com/tombh/texttop/blob/webext-rewrite/webext/src/text_builder.js#L165 https://github.com/tombh/texttop/blob/webext-rewrite/webext/...

Fnoord 9y ago
Have you considered using libcaca for some use cases? Might be appropriate for images/videos. Have you (or anyone else) tried Texttop over Tor + SSH? NX (FreeNX) and X2Go was already mentioned in the previous thread [1]. I've used NX successfully over 32 kbit/sec upload in 2005 (server in NL, client in CA/US). Latency was acceptable. But we're not talking about network speeds or latencies like 2G/Edge (which seems to be your use case). They support resuming of sessions. In other words, like RDP. And with regards to RDP: you can decrease the image quality to make it more bearable. Nowadays, open source implementations are available. If you're on very slow links you can also perhaps enable (more) compression, at the cost of more CPU power it might still actually decrease latency. Not sure if LZMA2 is used for compression in this context these days. Good luck with your project! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744788
Fnoord 9y ago
Can't edit my post anymore but I just tried Texttop out. I ran it according to your Quickstart guide in Docker as you suggested. In Terminal the keybinds didn't work, in iTerm zooming at least works. Whilst I was zooming in, I noticed my CPU fans suddenly went crazy on my MBP compared to Chrome RDP. The only time that happens on RDP is when I play a game remotely, or watch a video remotely. Htop confirmed it was iTerm.App. I didn't see either of these terminals in your known to work list either.
- tombh 9y ago
  Thanks for trying. Yes the iTerm keybindings are a known problem. Like I said, I've completely rewritten Texttop from scratch - it's now merely a lightweight Go binary (to receive a websocket and print to STDOUT) and a webextension. So it's significantly more performant.
  - Fnoord 9y ago
    Tom, my bad. It seems there is a bug in Docker for Mac which causes high CPU usage [1]. Def made the overheating worse. I'll give it a whirl on a different environment instead. EDIT: Just tried it on Windows. Is there a terminal you can recommend working on Windows? I tried CMD.exe, Powershell, Bash (WSL / Ubuntu) and Cmder. None worked well. [1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1759 https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1759
    - tombh 9y ago
      Oh, interesting, I never tried it on Windows. What doesn't work? Everything!? Can you make an Github Issue for it?
      - Fnoord 9y ago
        I was using RDP. Had different issues with each terminal but am going to try local, and I'll report the issue(s) on GitHub.
        tombh 9y ago
        Thank you :)

by tombh 9y ago

Fnoord 9y ago

Have you considered using libcaca for some use cases? Might be appropriate for images/videos. Have you (or anyone else) tried Texttop over Tor + SSH? NX (FreeNX) and X2Go was already mentioned in the previous thread [1]. I've used NX successfully over 32 kbit/sec upload in 2005 (server in NL, client in CA/US). Latency was acceptable. But we're not talking about network speeds or latencies like 2G/Edge (which seems to be your use case). They support resuming of sessions. In other words, like RDP. And with regards to RDP: you can decrease the image quality to make it more bearable. Nowadays, open source implementations are available. If you're on very slow links you can also perhaps enable (more) compression, at the cost of more CPU power it might still actually decrease latency. Not sure if LZMA2 is used for compression in this context these days. Good luck with your project! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744788

Fnoord 9y ago

Can't edit my post anymore but I just tried Texttop out. I ran it according to your Quickstart guide in Docker as you suggested. In Terminal the keybinds didn't work, in iTerm zooming at least works. Whilst I was zooming in, I noticed my CPU fans suddenly went crazy on my MBP compared to Chrome RDP. The only time that happens on RDP is when I play a game remotely, or watch a video remotely. Htop confirmed it was iTerm.App. I didn't see either of these terminals in your known to work list either.

tombh 9y ago
Thanks for trying. Yes the iTerm keybindings are a known problem. Like I said, I've completely rewritten Texttop from scratch - it's now merely a lightweight Go binary (to receive a websocket and print to STDOUT) and a webextension. So it's significantly more performant.
- Fnoord 9y ago
  Tom, my bad. It seems there is a bug in Docker for Mac which causes high CPU usage [1]. Def made the overheating worse. I'll give it a whirl on a different environment instead. EDIT: Just tried it on Windows. Is there a terminal you can recommend working on Windows? I tried CMD.exe, Powershell, Bash (WSL / Ubuntu) and Cmder. None worked well. [1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1759 https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1759
  - tombh 9y ago
    Oh, interesting, I never tried it on Windows. What doesn't work? Everything!? Can you make an Github Issue for it?
    - Fnoord 9y ago
      I was using RDP. Had different issues with each terminal but am going to try local, and I'll report the issue(s) on GitHub.
      - tombh 9y ago
        Thank you :)