Re: [SLUG] vnc2swf

From: Ian C. Blenke (icblenke@nks.net)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 17:17:16 EST


On Friday 21 February 2003 16:05, wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
> Ian
> How much machine do I need to run vnc2swf. I am running it
> on a Toshiba portege 7010 and it is slow, the screens write
> bar by bar. I may have something screwed up in X as things
> are slow in general, but it just may be the machine.

I experienced the same slowdown when trying to connect with anything other
than a truecolor depth visual. If you have an 8bit/256 color screen
(pseudocolor), it appears to paint the window a bar at a time, very slowly.

When you connect with VNC, it uses the "rfb" protocol over a TCP port (usually
5900+). When it connects, it authenticates and negotiates screen color depth
and the video encoding to use (raw, hextile, zlib, tight, etc).

Don't try and force a connect with anything other than a rfb "raw" truecolor
session when using vnc2swf. Make sure both sides support at least a
16bit/65535 color visual (this is what I've been testing with, anyway).

 - Ian



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