Regarding partial surface updates:
The common need to update just specific rectangles of a graphics memory area is the specific reason why D3D Lock* and Update* methods have rectangles as parameters. It is simply more efficient to just copy the actually changed data than blindly copy it all (if you can efficiently detect the changed areas).
It isn't very difficult to detect what specific areas of a desktop have changed, and express the changed areas as lists of rectangles. If you capture and send the images within those rectangles, the combined amount of data is likely much smaller than what the full desktop image requires.
On the drawing side, only draw the data that you actually get. And if you don't have all the data that you need to fill the frame, request the full frame image (commonly known as keyframe) from the remote desktop server and track changes from that.
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Display a bitmap as fast as technically possible!
Started by David Lake, Feb 14 2012 04:42 AM
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Posted 20 February 2012 - 10:55 AM
If i can calculate the difference between the current and last frame and set the alpha as well as rgb channels of the unchanged pixels to zero so the unchanged areas can be compressed out by the png compression then just lay the new frame over the last one at the other end.
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:35 PM
Ok iv somehow got my program to to about 20fps!!! the speed is insane!!! but im not quite sure how but theres 1 slight problem when i save a surface to a bmp instead of png the image is magnified and the right and bottom are cutoff what the hell is doing this?
Not only that but I was running x64, now i'm running x86 its going even faster at about 20-30fps its smooth enuf to watch a movie in!!!
Not only that but I was running x64, now i'm running x86 its going even faster at about 20-30fps its smooth enuf to watch a movie in!!!
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 01:42 AM
I figured out why the image was being stretched I just needed to specify the dimensions when calling DrawImage!
Now hows about some help with my idea of blanking unchanged pixels to make the frames smaller what would be the code for doing this?
Now hows about some help with my idea of blanking unchanged pixels to make the frames smaller what would be the code for doing this?
