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Re:Show HN: I wrote an open source cloud gaming service by W... by hawski on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:44PM (#22893353)
Going further are there any web Linux desktops? Like whole UI, text rendering and input is on a client's side browser. So also graphics with caching and video playback is just sending already encoded data through the wire. Video may need reencoding in case of non-web codecs though. It does not need to do any HTTPS, there is SSH, VPN, WireGuard and Zerotier.

WIP projects are also interesting for me.

Also I was thinking - would it be possible to at least have a virtual VAAPI driver that would send the encoded video straight over the connection and integrate it with something like Xpra? Because I had done some VPN/RDP like sessions via Xpra and videos are the biggest pain really.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote an open source cloud gaming service by W... by PhilippGille on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:01PM (#22894007)
Like Apache Guacamole? It sits between your client and server and turns the RDP/VNC connection to the server into a webapp for the client: https://guacamole.apache.org/

I tried it a few years ago and found it cumbersome to set up though.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote an open source cloud gaming service by W... by hawski on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:16PM (#22894130)
No. Not desktop streaming in web browser. Btw Xpra also has an HTML5 backend.

More like gtk's broadway backend, but for the whole desktop with fully browser side rendering.

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