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Not a bad tip, but using gzip compression over the wire seems pretty stone-age. The proper solution is surely to use a modern lossy video-compression algorithm.
by MaxBarraclough 7y ago
Not a bad tip, but using gzip compression over the wire seems pretty stone-age. The proper solution is surely to use a modern lossy video-compression algorithm. Is that possible with X?
It's not something I know a lot about. Is this where VNC steps in?
- lucb1e 7y agoI don't know much about it, but I'm fairly sure that compressing the Xorg data stream with lossy compression is going to mess it up completely and would require a complete overhaul of the protocol to make that work. VNC is indeed the more standard unix thing (insofar as remote GUIs can be considered standard on unix-likes) that applies lossy compression to the pictures being sent over.
- xioxox 7y agox2go and xpra allow some lossy compression algorithms.
- jlgaddis 7y ago> ... using gzip compression over the wire seems pretty stone-age. Really? Probably half of all web servers on the Internet (using HTTP/1.1) use it. > The proper solution is surely to use a modern lossy video-compression algorithm. The X11 protocol doesn't send bitmaps so I'm not certain that a "lossy video-compression algorithm" is gonna have the effect you think it will.