Recording size: Guacamole dump vs. encoded m4v

[Venceslav Vezjak <ve...@esq.com>]

Hi,

We tried latest guacamole server (git master) to test
recording of guacamole sessions (using VNC protocol
in our case). Passing `recording-path` connection parameter
works fine producing guacamole protocol dump about 1MB
in size for 1 minute session.

Using `guacenc` without options (defaults -s 640x480 -r 2000000)
we converted the dump into mpeg4 video file which about 10MB in
size. Giving a smaler bitrate (-r 500000) yields 4MB file.

Is this a normal behavior that `guacenc` gives larger files than raw
guacamole protocol dumps? Does guacamole dump have some
sort of compression included to achieve smaller dumps than m4v?

Since guacamole protocol dump consumes less storage is it
possible to play back the dump? We didn't try latest guacamole client
yet, maybe it already has playback :)

Thanks.

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Regards Venc