Trying to solve vnc issue

roxette

Hello,

I know that vnc doesn't work since RTAndroid, however, yesterday i came across the app in screenshot and wanted to give it a go.

The app is connected just fine till i start a vnc session from my pc then it crashes with the following error.
"Unfortunately the pixel format of your device is not supported. We are working on this."

Is there any way to solve that issue?

Regards.

schake

Hey,

the current emteria.OS defaults to BGRA8888 (as does Android-x86) for compatibility with the Mesa graphics driver. We've recently moved our development version to RGBA8888 (the AOSP default) and it might fix this issue.

I will try the app and report back.

roxette

Hello Stefan,
Thank you for the quick reply :smile: ,
That seems to be good news, i hope it will work.

schake

Just a quick update: moving to RGBA8888 fixed the issue in the VNC app. It also helps rendering in other apps (e.g. the map display in Waze). I think there will be a new release soonish.

roxette

Wow, that's so awesome ... i can't wait to try the new release :smiley:
I think that will solve the screen cast/mirror issues as well.

IvanNuestro

i think Droid VNC Server is working on 7.1.2

roxette

@IvanNuestro said:
i think Droid VNC Server is working on 7.1.2

The reason for mentioning that particular app in the thread is it tells you why it doesn't work, that was a hint in order to solve the problem.
Unlike Droid VNC Server which doesn't work and it doesn't tell you anything :smiley:

Edit: well, it probably tells you why it doesn't work but i was not able to read the error because of the GPU driver issue.

roxette

Hi, VNC is now working using Android Oreo, i believe Cast is working as well.
Are you guys going to release an Android Oreo version soon? :smile:

IKS

Thanks for updating. It would be awesome, if switching to Oreo would solve all the problems even with GPU driver problems. But I cannot believe that... it is more probable that your version is using another way of rendering (maybe software?). We would like to fix the underlying problem instead of providing workarounds, but we don't have a solution yet. If I am wrong and Oreo fixes it while preserving good performance, we will definitely look into it.

roxette

Regarding GPU renderer, does this screenshot make any sense to you?

taterchip

Anyone successfully gets VNC Server running yet?

roxette

Hello,
There is an issue with postimage website.
The previously uploaded images won't appear unless you change the url from
postimage.org
to
postimage.cc
I'm unable to edit my last comments so i just want to let you know :smile:

IKS

We have a new approach for making this work. I hope we will know more in a couple of weeks.

IKS

@roxette, which application did you use (images are broken)? do you know which version that was?

roxette

Hi Igor,
As i mentioned in my last reply, you just need to change the images url from
postimage.org
to
postimage.cc

So the new links will be as follows:

https://s8.postimg.cc/64lh97w8l/alfa_vnc.png

https://s8.postimg.cc/fdnniwxad/alfa_vnc1.png

https://s10.postimg.cc/cxo423jo9/vnc.jpg

It's alpha vnc lite v1.2.6

IKS

Thanks for your fast reply. This app acts as a server, right? Or only as a client? I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

roxette

The app is VNC server only.
That Oreo screenshot was captured from my windows 10 pc using VNC Viewer to prove that it works.

roxette

Hi Igor,
I installed Emteria v.0.5.21 to test the integrated vnc server,
Yeah, i can tell you that it works pretty well :smiley:
However i believe you tweaked that vnc server to support Emteria pixel format only therefore other apps pixel format problem remains unsolved.
Including Cast feature not working and could be the same issue for barcode scanner and Whatsapp videocall too.

roxette

Hi,
Does the integrated VNC server used in Emteria support bidirectional shared clipboard?

Edit: it seems that it doesn't as i'm able to paste text using Real VNC viewer on my pc to Raspbian Stretch VNC server and vise versa.

File transfer and chat is supported as well.

Is it possible to solve that issue?

IKS

Those are great ideas. I've added them to our TODO list, but I can't provide any ETA for now.