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I did something similar for cheap (insecure) desktop streaming a few years ago. Roughly, use scrot (or similar screen capturing command line tool) to take a sc

I did something similar for cheap (insecure) desktop streaming a few years ago. Roughly, use scrot (or similar screen capturing command line tool) to take a screenshot of the desktop and then encode it into a gif frame. Repeat once per second. Boom, your desktop is now a gif. The main problem with this approach is that transmitting stuff via gif (low-color bitmaps, remember) is painfully slow even with modern internet. That said, could probably be very useful in some instances!

dbaupp 14y ago
It is possible to do some interframe compression with gifs[1], so one can potentially reduce the data sent significantly, especially if one is typing or not changing the whole screen. (And gifs aren't "just" bitmaps, they have some compression[2].) [1]: "Some economy of data is possible where a frame need only rewrite a portion of the pixels of the display, because the Image Descriptor can define a smaller rectangle to be rescanned instead of the whole image." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Animated_GIF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#An... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Welch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Wel...