IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol

Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by winkelmann on Friday March 21, 2025 @03:27PM (#43439965)

I'd still pick RDP for remote managing any day, its server and client are so much better integrated (clipboard, peripherals, etc.) for this task than Sunshine/Moonlight. It also avoids the whole issue of setting up a virtual display output[1] as is required by Sunshine. I use both for different tasks.

On a related note, as of recent versions, Sunshine and Moonlight stable releases support 4:4:4 chroma subsampling and bitrates up to 500Mbit/s with HEVC, which results in almost indistinguishable image quality compared to native output[2]. Bitrates that high are unusual in normal content, but at least Apple's Media Engine (on M-series Macs) appears to be capable of decoding it.

[1] Here is a pretty good solution that piggybacks off of Parsec's driver, which is fully signed, though its EDID lacks HDR support. The project also includes a C header file for custom implementations: https://github.com/nomi-san/parsec-vdd

[2] Note: I found that I had to enable 10-bit color streaming (which is available when using Parsec's driver) to get rid of some gradient banding that isn't present in native 8-bit. I suspect it's some encoder and/or color space issue.

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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by wtallis on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:52PM (#43443308)

I wonder how Apple's ProRes would work for remote desktop over wired networks, especially now that consumer equipment is starting to move beyond 1GbE. They have hardware encode and decode on everything newer than the original M1, and ProRes only does intra-frame compression so a fairly low-latency implementation should be possible.

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