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Author: Tim
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Subject: [Hampshire] [OT]VNC Codec

Had this in my mail box earlier, thought some of you might be interested

Tim (who not a vnc developer)

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Dear VNC developer.


                  Introduction of
  "ZYWRLE":Enhanced VNC codec for Motion picture


1. Introduction
 The lossy codec based on Wavelet transform is frequently
used in compression of natural image, motion picture and
audio stream.
 But it isn't almost used in Remote Desktop protocol like
VNC because classical lossless run-length codec like ZRLE
has high performance in peculiar image which has big mono
color region like desktop image. The lack of lossy codec
cause low performance of motion picture in VNC.
 We introduce new codec "ZYWRLE(ZLib YUV Wavelet Run Length
Encoding)" which applied wavelet transform partially and
is based on ZRLE. In this new codec, network traffic reduced
to 15%-50% traffic of ZRLE when we play motion picture.


2. Highlight of Evalution of ZYWRLE

               Result of ZYWRLE for motion picture
+-------+-------------------+------------------+------------------+
|quality|  Raw tile(Mbytes) |   Total(Mbytes)  |Raw tile|PSNR(RGB)|
|       |  Out | Raw  |rate | Comp.|  Raw |rate| rate(%)|   (dB)  |

+-------+------+------+-----+------+------+----+--------+---------+
| ZRLE  |125.8 |125.8 |100  |117.1 |392.2 |29.8|  32.1  |   INF.  |
|  Hi   | 53.85|167.58| 32.1| 52.10|370.96|14.0|  45.1  |  28.025 |
| Mid   | 31.83|264.05| 12.1| 20.56|378.50| 5.4|  69.7  |  23.980 |

+-------+------+------+-----+------+------+----+--------+---------+

* Comp. rate of ZRLE(about 30%) goes to 15%(Hi-quality)/5%(Mid-quality)!


3. Reference Implementation(C source code/patch for VNC Servers)
  * Core Codec of ZYWRLE
      http://mobile.hitachi-system.co.jp/publications/ZYWRLE/zywrletemplate.c
  * Patch for Ultr@VNC V1.0.2
     
http://mobile.hitachi-system.co.jp/publications/ZYWRLE/UltraVNC-102-ZYWRLE-diff.txt
  * Patch for LibVNCServer 0.8.2
     
http://mobile.hitachi-system.co.jp/publications/ZYWRLE/LibVNCServer-0.8.2-ZYWRLE-diff.txt

I think that Any VNC server can be applied ZYWRLE easlilly using one of these
patch.


4. License of ZYWRLE
 Though ZYWRLE is our intellectual property and was developed for
our micro-VNC, We Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd. decided make it
open source. You can use it with no fee for commercial and/or
non-commercial purpose. The above reference implementation are released
under our BSD-like license. More detail, see top of zywrletemplate.c.


5. More detail
 See our ZYWRLE page(http://mobile.hitachi-system.co.jp/publications/ZYWRLE/)

We are glad if your VNC server supports ZYWRLE.

Thank you.

---
Noriaki Yamazaki
Administrator of micro-VNC

Research & Developement center
Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd.
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