I'm not sure, if that's expected, but sometimes xpra image became blurry: https://bin.akawolf.org/f/y6v35.png Log from Bug Report tool: http://paste.akawolf.org/view/kgBwT
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Server OS: NixOS 15.07pre66213.9d5508d (Dingo) Client OS: OpenSUSE 13.1
KDE4 with KDM are using for both: server and client machine. server side: $ xpra --version 2015-08-10 14:07:04,190 rencode import error: No module named rencode xpra v0.15.3 client side: > xpra --version xpra v0.15.3 Reconnecting is always solve the problem for some time. Client side: > ./xpra/net/net_util.py Network interfaces found: * lo (index=1) * enp3s0 (index=2) * enp3s0:10 (index=2) Protocol Capabilities: * bencode : True * bencode.version : Cython, 0.11 * compressors : zlib, lz4 * digest : hmac, xor * encoders : bencode, rencode * lz4 : True * lzo : False * mmap : True * pycrypto : False * rencode : True * rencode.version : Cython, 1.0.3 * yaml : False * zlib : True * zlib.version : 1.0 > ./xpra/codecs/loader.py 2015-08-10 14:11:32,095 unknown logging category: x265 codecs and csc modules found: * PIL : /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/__init__.pyc * enc_vpx : /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/codecs/vpx/encoder.so * dec_vpx : /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/codecs/vpx/decoder.so * enc_x264 : /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/codecs/enc_x264/encoder.so * enc_x265 : /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/codecs/enc_x265/encoder.so * nvenc3 : * nvenc4 : * nvenc5 : * csc_swscale : /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/codecs/csc_swscale/colorspace_converter.so * csc_cython : /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/codecs/csc_cython/colorspace_converter.so * csc_opencl : * dec_avcodec2 : /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/codecs/dec_avcodec2/decoder.so * enc_webp : /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/codecs/webp/encode.so * dec_webp : /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/codecs/webp/decode.so codecs versions: * PIL : 2.9.0 * avcodec2 : 56.41.100 * cython : 0.3.0.19.1 * dec_webp : 0.4.3 * enc_webp : 0.4.3 * numpy : 1.7.1 * swscale : 3.1.101 * vpx : 1.4.0 * x264 : 142 * x265 : 1.7
xpra info, when the image is blurry: http://paste.akawolf.org/view/A6svZ
As per the log file, this seems to be a shadow server.
I think that using --scaling=0
should fix this.
Maybe we should give a hint to the video encoders to reduce the chances that auto-scaling will kick in when using shadow servers.
(editing bug title)
Using "--scaling=0" fixed the problem.
FYI: as of r10257, we try not to automatically downscale the picture in the shadow servers.
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/940