X compression techniques (was Re: VNC server based on kdrive using damage extension?)

Mike MacCana mikem@cyber.com.au
Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:15:22 +1100 (EST)


On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, K. Vogel wrote:

> Mike MacCana wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Jaymz Julian wrote:
> >
> >> admittedly some of the x protocol
> >> compression packages do make this somewhat possible,
> >
> > You've answered yourself here. It seems far too often people
> > take X as is without any protocol compression. There's some
> > brilliant stuff that's been done in the last few years, some of
> > which make X quite fast over thin pipes - particularly MLView DXPC.
>
> The people that made ml-view started a company to sell their X proxy. The
> source to the proxy & compression libs are open source.
>
>   http://www.nomachine.com/developers.php
>
> It works pretty well on low bandwidth connections.

Nifty. As well as being GPLed and more active than most of these projects
(or VNC for that matter) there's clients for Win32 and Zaurus.

Downloading now...would be interested if anyone's got ideas for
benchmarking.

Mike