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In my experience, remote desktop solutions that use hardware accelerated encoding (Parsec, Nvidia GameStream, Steam Remote Play) are virtually indistinguishable

by fsh 5y ago

In my experience, remote desktop solutions that use hardware accelerated encoding (Parsec, Nvidia GameStream, Steam Remote Play) are virtually indistinguishable from a local session when using wired Gigabit Ethernet. Even over the internet, the delay is only really noticeable in fast games. Would be great if RDP or VNC could catch up with this technology.

vetinari 5y ago
Gnome-remote-desktop in Gnome 42 (to be released soon) uses NVENC for H.264 encoding, if available. Of course, the client must support that too (many do, if the user left everything at 'auto').
AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
RDP at least is probably vastly more efficient as it doesn't encode the entire screen as a video every frame. This is what gives it the flexibility to have the remote display resolution and DPI be independent of the local settings, for one. It's actually quite sophisticated, unlike VNC and its ilk, but it isn't optimized for gaming.
- R0b0t1 5y ago
  Not true anymore. RDP encodes the entire desktop as it is more efficient than relaying the draw commands. You will notice compression artifacts on a poor network connection as RDP reduces the bitrate to compensate.
theelix 5y ago
Speaking of this, I make a shameless plug. I'm a contributor for the Sunshine project: https://github.com/SunshineStream/Sunshine https://github.com/SunshineStream/Sunshine project, which allows Nvidia GameStream to be used on Linux systems with Moonlight clients. I haven't tested the Linux side of things, but it has many ways to both encode the screen or acquire it (via KMS, Pipewire or x11grab IIRC).
nisegami 5y ago
I would love for Parsec to support Linux as servers.
- theblazehen 5y ago
  Try out Sunshine as mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697718 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697718 Don't have direct experience with Sunshine but my moonlight experience in general was great

by fsh 5y ago

vetinari 5y ago

Gnome-remote-desktop in Gnome 42 (to be released soon) uses NVENC for H.264 encoding, if available. Of course, the client must support that too (many do, if the user left everything at 'auto').

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

RDP at least is probably vastly more efficient as it doesn't encode the entire screen as a video every frame. This is what gives it the flexibility to have the remote display resolution and DPI be independent of the local settings, for one. It's actually quite sophisticated, unlike VNC and its ilk, but it isn't optimized for gaming.

R0b0t1 5y ago
Not true anymore. RDP encodes the entire desktop as it is more efficient than relaying the draw commands. You will notice compression artifacts on a poor network connection as RDP reduces the bitrate to compensate.

theelix 5y ago

Speaking of this, I make a shameless plug. I'm a contributor for the Sunshine project: https://github.com/SunshineStream/Sunshine https://github.com/SunshineStream/Sunshine project, which allows Nvidia GameStream to be used on Linux systems with Moonlight clients. I haven't tested the Linux side of things, but it has many ways to both encode the screen or acquire it (via KMS, Pipewire or x11grab IIRC).

nisegami 5y ago

I would love for Parsec to support Linux as servers.

theblazehen 5y ago
Try out Sunshine as mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697718 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697718 Don't have direct experience with Sunshine but my moonlight experience in general was great