Inverted Video Anomoly

[James Weatherall]

>     Personally, I've never managed to get video.  I always 
> get a black area instead of the video, but I don't care much. 
>  You have to know that VNC wasn't designed to serve video on the net.

Legacy video applications sometimes use overlay rendering, which doesn't render the video into the main framebuffer, and so can't be captured by VNC.  Disabling hardware video acceleration in your graphics card's settings is the simplest way to work around that.

Cheers,

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Wez @ RealVNC Ltd