Xpra: Ticket #305: PNG palette indexed encoding mode

would probably save a fair amount of bandwidth. We can provide a new encoding option, maybe named "png8". This should reduce the bandwidth somewhat.

Also, let's benchmark the "optimize=1" flag to see if it is worth having, maybe as an encoding option similar to the x264 speed menu. (with just 2 options)



Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:31:11 GMT - Antoine Martin: status, description changed


Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:51:17 GMT - Antoine Martin: attachment set

updated patch with missing parts


Sun, 19 May 2013 15:07:47 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

added support in r3446, it has to be enabled manually using:

It would be advantageous to use these modes automatically (at least png/P) when compressing regions with few colours... but I don't see how we could detect the presence of uniform regions cheaply enough.


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:51:11 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/305