Bug 1814 - caching CODEC for VNC
Summary: caching CODEC for VNC
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: ThinLinc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: VNC (show other bugs)
Version: 1.4.1
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 Enhancement
Target Milestone: MediumPrio
Assignee: Peter Åstrand
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on: 2745
Blocks: performance
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Reported: 2006-02-01 16:35 CET by Peter Åstrand
Modified: 2014-04-22 14:01 CEST (History)
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Mail from Karl J. Runge (2.89 KB, text/plain)
2007-01-11 10:02 CET, Peter Åstrand
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Description Peter Åstrand cendio 2006-02-01 16:35:08 CET
There have been various attemps to improve performance in VNC, for example, by
using caching. Recently, Novell posted a link to this document:

http://forgeftp.novell.com//library/RFB%20Caching/rfbcaching.pdf

After this posting, there were some discussions on the mailing list as well.
Comment 1 Peter Åstrand cendio 2007-01-11 10:02:21 CET
Created attachment 228 [details]
Mail from Karl J. Runge
Comment 3 Peter Åstrand cendio 2007-03-19 17:07:54 CET
This bug might be suitable for a master thesis work. 
Comment 4 Peter Åstrand cendio 2007-03-30 14:56:26 CEST
The time required depends on how many client should support this extension. 
Comment 5 George Wright cendio 2008-06-26 10:08:39 CEST
For what it's worth, NoMachine have a method of converting RFB to X11 which they then use NX to compress, and they claim a compression factor of between 2 and 10 for this data. 

See http://www.nomachine.com/documents/intr-technology.php subheading "RDP and RFB Foreign Protocols".

Caching in NX is described in http://www.nomachine.com/documents/NX-XProtocolCompression.php but I think the only relevant subheading is "Disk Based Cache of Images"
Comment 8 Pierre Ossman cendio 2011-11-02 09:28:04 CET
UltraVNC has some encoding types that mention caching. Might be something worth looking at there.
Comment 9 Peter Åstrand cendio 2013-02-05 09:22:48 CET
Some (somewhat old) information from Sun:

https://blogs.oracle.com/ThinGuy/entry/sun_ray_bandwidth

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