Siva, The Auto-select option will switch the connection from the preferred Low Colour mode to Full Colour if there is sufficient bandwidth available. It will never switch the colour level from Full back to Medium/Low/VeryLow, though.
Note that the Low Colour levels are Medium (256), Low (64) and Very Low (8) - VNC Viewer doesn't switch between these, they're just separate options for what to do if the connection appears to be slow. So in the example you gave, you might be seeing 256 colours because the server desktop is 256-colour and VNC Viewer has switch into Full Colour, or because you have manually selected the Medium Colour level. If you use Auto-select and manually select Full Colour then VNC Viewer will switch to Full Colour regardless of the available bandwidth. None of this affects the selection of the graphical encoding to use, which VNC Viewer will change dynamically in response to bandwidth changes when Auto-select is in use. Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kumar, Siva > Sent: 21 February 2007 22:51 > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: Color Level on slow connections > > Will the Color level be adjusted according to the connection > speed even > if the User picks a specific color level (in the Colours & > Encoding tab > of the Options dialog) before connecting. > > I thought this depended on whether the AutoSelect option was > selected or > not. > But today I tried reducing the bandwidth between the server and client > (using network simulation software), after connecting without any > bandwidth restrictions (over LAN). The AutoSelect option was > enabled and > the initial Color level was 256 colors. Even after the bandwidth was > reduced (to about 56 > kbps) the color depth did not go down. > > Before I was selecting the Color depth the initial Color depth > automatically selected was 64 Colors or lower for the low bandwidths - > so VNC knows that > 256 colors is high for the given slow connection. > > All this was with VNC Free Edition v4.1.2 - Windows client/Solaris > server. > > -- > Regards, > Siva. > > Confidentiality Notice > This e-mail (including any attachments) is intended only for > the recipients named above. It may contain confidential or > privileged information and should not be read, copied or > otherwise used by any other person. If you are not a named > recipient, please notify the sender of that fact and delete > the e-mail from your system. > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
