Desktop TCP Streaming (java)

Question

I want to stream desktop screen captures using sockets. I don\'t know the exact way to do this, so I went with AWT\'s robot :)

Robot robot = ne         


        

Answer 1

I think you'll need external library to create video (may be platform dependent).

The approach with images is simple but you'll need to send each frame. When you use video codec size is smaller because it sends some of frames in full size and other contain only changed part of the picture See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_frame

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-frame

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Here some open-source libs I just googled:

https://code.google.com/p/java-screen-recorder/

http://www.xuggle.com/xuggler/

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I think You also can find some libs to create video stream from images...