On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:03:24PM -0600, Matt Campbell wrote: > Hello James: > > I have implemented the encoding, and so far, it seems to work well, > though I'll admit I'm testing on fast CPU's (at least 2 GHz). Please > allocate an encoding number for this encoding. > > Also, a clarification on this encoding: Unlike ZRLE, a bz2tile > rectangle does not start with a length field on the wire. Instead, each > bz2tile rectangle is represented on the wire by a complete bzip2 stream.
But then you lose the dictionary (or equivalent), and the compression ratio suffers, no? > This works because libbz2 can identify the end of a bzip2 stream and > indicate to the caller how many bytes of input were left unused. It > does mean that a bz2tile rectangle requires at least 37 bytes, but the > server could avoid excess overhead by using hextile for rectangles under > a certain size. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
