Matt Campbell wrote: > Hello: > > Has anyone considered devising a new RFB encoding which uses LZMA > compression? I think it would be worthwhile, since LZMA typically has a > much better compression ratio than zlib or bzip2. Also, if the LZMA > dictionary is reasonably large, I'm guessing that the compression ratio > will improve significantly after the first few framebuffer updates. > This is only a conjecture at this point, so I was wondering if anyone > has pursued this idea further. > > Matt
According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA), although LZMA is open-source (LGPL), "[w]ide use of Microsoft Windows-specific features are deeply buried in the source code" and "it has taken a while for a Unix-compatible version to appear." This would limit portability to other platforms (Linux and Mac OS-X, among others), so until recently, LZMA was probably not an option for RealVNC. Are U offering to add it? :) -------------------------------------------------------- Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
