> I've been using VNC for a couple of years now, almost always with copyrect
> hextile encoding. Despite looking over all the FAQ's and documentation, I
> have yet to see a really good explaination of when I might want to use any
> of the other encodings, or what the pros and cons between them. Can anyone
> recommend some online resources for non-programmers, or give me a brief
> synopsis?
The answer is pretty much "never". The other encodings (RRE and CoRRE) are
really there to support older clients and servers, and also to make it
trivial to write new ones, since Hextile is relatively complex by
comparison. The RFB Clock mentioned on the VNC site, for example, uses RRE
to render itself.
The only other encoding you might use is Raw, in conjunction with CopyRect,
if your network is a high-bandwidth one, in which case you save by not
encoding the data.
Cheers,
James "Wez" Weatherall
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