I had a random issue in TMD when multiple clients were connected to the same server, with consistent random but incrementing memory leak of the tmdserver process. Today I was able to isolate the issue and fix it. The system was free from leaks during stress tests with more clients connected and encoding at 60 …
Finally I finished the implementation of FFmpeg module. It works. I’m already able to stream with mpeg1video, vp9 and av1. For now, the ffmpeg module works only with software encoding. I benchmarked the available encoders in my environment, and mpeg1video (even if old) proved to be the best in terms of performance (60 fps), while …
TMD version 0.4 is available in the download page. This is one of the most powerful release ever. The software has been optimized to achieve higher performance on low-end and high-end machines. Now it’s possible to change settings from tmdserver command line and to activate lossless compression (> tmdserver –lossless). This version was capable of …
I’m working hard in these days to release version 0.4 beta with many improvements and news. This time, it will be possible to change settings from command line, so you will have the chance to tune the remote experience for your needs. You will be able to enable/disable quality updates, enable lossless encoding, limit the …
TextureMind Desktop version 0.3 is available in the download page. Now you have higher framerate with jpeg compression and lossless quality update with QOI/LZ4 compression. No more huge logs. The log level is info by default and it can be changed to debug from command line. For the first time, the build is dynamic with …
Outstanding news. I added a new codec which makes use of Quite Ok Image (QOI) format for lossless encoding. The encoded image is compressed also with LZ4 to save more space (but it can be optionally compressed with ZIP as well). The new codec is used mainly for quality updates but it is so fast …
Finally I added support for quality updates. For those who don’t know, quality updates are static areas in the screen which are updated to increment visual quality without impacting performance of moving pixels. The implementation is so optimized that didn’t touch the performance of before, maintaining scenarios with 60 fps in Full HD.
Even today I worked hard to fix some nasty bugs in version 0.2. In order: I also added the possibility to send frame updates with NULL payload for debugging. Now you can download version 0.2.1 in download area with the patches applied.
Early versions of TextureMind Desktop won’t have h.264 or hevc encoding, because those codecs cost money and the software (at least initially) will be free. For hardware encoding, the choice will fall on AV1, which can be used freely. For software encoding, things get more complicated. AV1 would be a great choice for visual quality …
The very first version of TextureMind Desktop, now available in the download area. Since it is the first beta version, you may find some bug, crashes and lot of limitations. Note that the software is in continuous development, so most of them will be fixed as soon as possible. In the next version, there will …