Announcements

[pavlobu]

This thread is for announcements and for work in progress updates on Deskreen

It is locked, so others cant write here, please use other channels if you want write a message.

[pavlobu]

Good news guys!

I found the way to force using VP9 codec when doing webrtc screen sharing. VP9 seems to do lossless compression on a video stream and OMG it reduces picture size up to 30% !!!!! 🤯

How I tested? I created two screenshots of screen sharing on my IPad, one with force VP9 and other without it and the one without VP9. The screenshot with VP9 has a smaller size in about 30%!

Benefit from that?

It will save bandwidth thus may reduce latency, coz some of you were complaining about latency.

force VP9 on WebRTC will come in new release of Deskreen for sure, I already have a code for that 😎

code is here:
https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/tree/vp9

[pavlobu]

In new release I'll freeze pulsing animation on three step bubbles,.

it is useless resources consumption and I saw other guy demo video about Deskreen
the guy on video is having little sluggish UI performance issues, it is related to this resource heavy animation of pulsing effect on orange step bubbles. So I'll freeze them to reduce resources consumption.

[pavlobu]

Hi everyone! 👋 Thank you for liking and using Deskreen. 🙏

So far I was planning on my TODO list for Deskreen. It needs to be code signed, and right now we are still in stage of collecting funds for it.

So I was prioritizing on how to approach multiple requests I got from you and I decided to follow this priority list before the app will be code signed:

Things to Be Done Before Code Signing:

• 0. Write FAQ
• 1. Write translations and help translators on translating Deskreen
• 2. Add ability to switch nework cards
• 3. Support for ipv6
• 4. Finishing tests, reaching at least 90% with codecov
• 5. Setting up SonarCloud for better code quality control and adding badges to readme
• 6. Add system tray for Deskreen
• 7. Add autostart for Deskreen
• 8. Add Trusted Devices Feature, so you don't need to reconnect every time when connection drops.

Those features are a must have before doing code signing and reaching more people around the world to use Deskreen. The app will be more user friendly with this and it is very important to make them first before attracting more users to Deskreen.

[pavlobu]

Set for Performance Improvements

I saw some users were complaining about performance issues on Windows.

Most of the time I develop Deskreen on my Mac so haven't noticed this issue before.

So I tried it and also noticed minor performance issues on Windows 10 when dragging Deskreen window

Will try to fix this performance problem in the upcoming releases. Stay tuned.

[pavlobu]

Fixed now in v1.0.9 ! 🎉