Technology
How the server actually works, and the measurements behind it. These pages cover the capture, encoding and transport paths, and publish the original research that informed them.
How it works
Each page follows one path through the server, from the compositor to the wire.
Wayland
XDG Desktop Portals, PipeWire capture, libei input, and the per-compositor strategies behind them.
Learn more →Video Encoding
The H.264 pipeline, AVC444 and AVC420, hardware encoders, and bandwidth behaviour.
Learn more →Colour Management
Colour spaces, VUI signalling, and accurate reproduction across compositors and clients.
Learn more →Performance
Adaptive frame rate, damage tracking, the latency governor, and cursor prediction.
Learn more →Service Discovery
Runtime capability detection: what the session actually offers, decided per connection.
Learn more →Measurements and proposals
Empirical work Lamco Development LLC published on remote desktop infrastructure. Both papers informed the product and were written to be useful outside it, which is why they carry no version numbers and stand on their measurements.
Capture Protocol Timing Feedback
March 2026
Empirical analysis of capture latency variance across Wayland compositors, and a proposal for timing feedback in ext-image-copy-capture-v1.
EGFX Multi-Codec Pipeline
March 2026
A white paper on per-frame codec selection in the EGFX graphics pipeline, and what it buys over a single-codec stream.
Read the white paper →Built on published crates
The capture and protocol layers described here are open source libraries, not server-private code.