Re: [Vnc2swf-users] Bug in vnclog recordings

[Tom P. <lu...@gm...>]

On 3/30/07, Yusuke Shinyama <yu...@cs...> wrote:
>
> Hi Luis,
>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:44:55 -0700 (PDT), lfk...@ya... wrote:
> > In my opinion the correct timestamp should be the moment the
> > client starts receiving the framebuffer update because that's
> > the closest to the moment that the server actually checked the
> > screen.  The problem is most noticeable when there are none or
> > just a few interactions (keyboard and mouse movements). When the
> > mouse moves alot the server is constantly sending an update so
> > the difference in timestamp is not noticeable.  Another problem
> > lies in function update_screen of RFBMovieConverter class
> > (rfb.py).  Given a timestamp, it should first create empty
> > frames to catchup the elapsed time and only after that it should
> > insert a frame with the framebuffer update. Currently it's in
> > the other way around.  This is used in vnclog playback.  SWF
> > recordings use a different class which is currently working
> > correctly.
>
> Hmm... you seem to be right. I haven't thought much about
> this timing issue, but experienced weird phenomena
> (screen updates are sometime too off timing) a couple of times.
> I'll take a look into this.


Yusuke,
Have you had a chance to look at this problem? Is there anything that I can
do to help?

Thanks,
Tom