Hitachi-ZYWRLE Encoding Number (was RE: Introduction of New VNC codec)

Peter Rosin peda "at" lysator.liu.se
Thu Jun 14 08:43:00 2007


On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:30:49PM -0000, James Weatherall wrote:
> Hi Noriaki-san,
> 
> I've had encoding number 17 allocated to Hitachi ZYWRLE - using this
> encoding number will ensure compatibility with standard VNC and
> VNC-compatible releases.  The next release of the VNC codebase will
> therefore include an encoding "place-holder":
> 
>   const int encoding3rdPartyHitachiZYWRLE = 17;
> 

The ZYWRLE encoding does not appear in the latest RFB spec.

(Also, UltraVNC seem to experiment with encoding 9. Is that one
registered?)

Cheers,
Peter