Audit your current viewerframe loop today. Are you refreshing 100% of pixels 60 times per second? If yes, you are wasting 99% of your bandwidth. Slice it, sync it, and serve it smarter. Keywords integrated: viewerframe mode, refresh better, dirty rectangles, asynchronous present, tearing elimination.
; Open-source remote viewers are the most common victims of poor viewerframe refresh. A typical user reports: "Scrolling is choppy; the screen refreshes in bands." viewerframe mode refresh better
class BetterViewerFrame private: RingBuffer<Frame, 3> frames; DirtyRegionTracker regionTracker; Timer refreshTimer; public: void onSourceFrameReady(Frame& newFrame) Audit your current viewerframe loop today
void onViewerRefreshCycle() uint64_t now = getMonotonicTime(); Frame* latest = frames.getLatest(); // Adaptive refresh logic if (latest->timestamp > lastPresentTime) // Align with display vblank while (!isInVBlank()) spin_wait(0.1ms); // Present only dirty rects (not entire buffer) presentPartial(latest->damagedRects); lastPresentTime = now; regionTracker.markClean(latest->damagedRects); // Decay to 1Hz if idle if ((now - lastChangeTime) > IDLE_THRESHOLD) setRefreshRate(1.0); else setRefreshRate(getDisplayHz()); // Full sync only when active Slice it, sync it, and serve it smarter