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Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by codewithcheese on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:27AM (#14201128)
There are lots of alternatives to VNC that are much more efficient and depending on your connection can even stream HD video. Unfortunately many of the alternatives are poorly documented.

RDP will give better results and there are tons of implementations.

NoMachine is probably the best documented and supported. However is proprietary but they have a free version. I believe it can do streaming video.

Spice is poorly documented and seems to not be maintained however it is very efficient and can stream janky video.

Have a look at XRDP with libfxcodec for streaming video (need lots of bandwith) otherwise without libfxcodec for decent low bandwidth

Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by kschiller on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:52AM (#14202908)
I've done some research into streaming video on a remote desktop for a project before and I've never heard of libfxcodec, can you go into more detail about it? I can't find anything about it.
Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by j_s on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:46PM (#14205254)
I didn't believe you until this brought up the parent comment as the only result:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=xrdp+libfxcodec

Shortest Googlewhack(-ish) I've ever accidentally stumbled upon myself, for sure!

try: https://github.com/neutrinolabs/librfxcodec

Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by kschiller on Monday May 01, 2017 @02:23PM (#14240076)
Cheers!
Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by codewithcheese on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:44PM (#14216066)
Oops yep, thanks for the correction j_s
Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by _jal on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:56AM (#14202945)
I can really only use Spice on Linux. The Mac client is unusable. Haven't tried the Windows build.

It would be a nice protocol if there were functional clients, but I fear that train has sailed.