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diff --git a/docs/5_Component_Documentation/2_waltham-receiver_waltham-transmitter.md b/docs/5_Component_Documentation/2_waltham-receiver_waltham-transmitter.md deleted file mode 100644 index b98de32..0000000 --- a/docs/5_Component_Documentation/2_waltham-receiver_waltham-transmitter.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,96 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Waltham receiver/transmitter ---- - -# Waltham - -[Waltham protocol](https://github.com/waltham/waltham) is a IPC library similar -to [Wayland](https://wayland.freedesktop.org), developed with networking in -mind. It operates over TCP sockets, while the wayland protocol only works -locally over a UNIX socket. It retains wayland-esque paradigm, making use of -XMLs to describe the protocol, and it follows an object-oriented design with an -asynchronous architecture. - -## Differences from Wayland to Waltham - -Some of the differences between Wayland and Waltham are: - -* Waltham uses TCP sockets for communication -* Waltham cannot send file descriptors -* Waltham API is minimal and symmetric between server and client sides -* Waltham does not provide an event loop implementation -* The registry implementation is left out of the library, only the interface is - provided -* No multi-threading support for sharing objects between threads - -## Waltham-transmitter and remoting plugin - -Surface sharing is not part of Waltham protocol, each system needs to implement -the most efficient way of passing by the buffers from one side to another. On -AGL, make use of remoting-plugin to enable surface sharing which uses GStreamer -as encoder/decoder. It uses libweston DRM virtual API to grab the buffers, and -then to stream them over the network. The gstreamer pipeline uses UDP while the -input events are communicated with Waltham protocol. The input part is handled -by *waltham-transmitter* plugin which provides an API to create remote -connections and push surfaces over the network and handles remote input. The -act of pushing surface is a misnomer, kept from the older, previous -implementation, and acts a notification mechanism from the transmitter side to -the remote side. - -## The receiver client - -waltham-receiver application is a wayland demo implementation which should be -running at the remote side. It is using Waltham protocol to obtain and process -remote input events which handled the transmitter side by the waltham-transmitter -plugin. It creates a similar gstreamer pipeline to process the incoming buffers -and draw and displaying them into a subsurface created by waylandsink. - -Contrary to expectations, the waltham receiver is the one that implements the -server side of the Waltham protocol and is capable of displaying the incoming -buffers but also process input events locally and forward them with the help of -the Waltham protocol back at the transmitter side, which in turn will update -the image contents and stream to the receiver, showing the changes caused by -that input. - - - ECU 1 ECU 2 - +---------------------------------------------+ +--------------------------------------+ - | +-----------------+ | | | - | | Application | | | +-----------+-----------+ | - | +-----------------+ | | | Gstreamer | | | - | ^ | Buffer ---------------> (Decode) | | | - | wayland | +-------------------/ | +-----------+ | | - | v | | (Ethernet) | | Waltham-receiver | | - | +----+---------------------+ | | --------------------> | | - | | | Transmitter plugin |<---------------------/ | +-----------------------+ | - | | | | | | Waltham-Protocol | ^ | - | | |---------------------| | | | wayland | | - | | | Remoting plugin |-------+ | | v | - | | | | | | +---------------------+ | - | | +---------------------+ | | | | | - | | | | | | compositor | | - | | compositor | | | | | | - | +------+-------------------+ | | +----------------+----+ | - | | | | | | - | v | | v | - | +------------+ | | +----------+ | - | | Display | | | | Display | | - | | | | | | | | - | +------------+ | | +----------+ | - +---------------------------------------------+ +--------------------------------------+ - -## Migrating/Placing applications on other outputs - -In order to start or place an application on the remoting-ouput output, we can -use `agl-shell-app-id` ini entry for that particular output. - - [transmitter-output] - name=transmitter-1 - mode=640x720@30 - host=192.168.20.99 - port=5005 - agl-shell-app-id=<APP_ID> - -Alternatively, and programmatically, one can use the -[agl-shell-desktop](1_agl-compositor.md#private-extensions) protocol and inform -the compositor that it should migrate it to other, remote outputs. |