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NvFBC is unable to capture certain applications that bypasses the DWM compositor, for example, Firefox playing video in full screen. This has been a known issue for a long time with Nvidia's ShadowPlay, see: * https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-experience/14/233709/ * https://crbug.com/609857 Nvidia won't fix this, but there are workarounds. For example, we create a transparent 1x1 layered window, which forces desktop composition to be enabled. Note that SetLayeredWindowAttributes also supports alpha-based transparency, but setting transparency to 0 will cause DWM to skip composition. We could use a transparency of 1, but this ruins the image by the slightest bit, which is unacceptable. Therefore, we must use chroma key-based transparency, which tricks DWM into compositing despite being fully transparent.
Looking Glass
An extremely low latency KVMFR (KVM FrameRelay) implementation for guests with VGA PCI Passthrough.
- Project Website: https://looking-glass.io
- Getting Started: https://looking-glass.io/wiki/Installation
Donations
I (Geoffrey McRae) am the primary developer behind this project and I have invested thousands of hours of development time into it.
If you like this project and find it useful and would like to help out you can support me directly using the following platforms.
Documentation
** IMPORTANT ** This project contains submodules that must be checked out if building from the git repository! If you are not a developer and just want to compile Looking Glass please download the source archive from the website instead:
https://looking-glass.io/downloads
Please also be sure to see the following files for more information
Note: The README.md files are slowly being deprecated from this project in
favor of the wiki at https://looking-glass.io/wiki, and as such the
information in these files may be dated.
Latest Version
If you would like to use the latest bleeding edge version of Looking Glass please be aware there will be no support at this time.
Latest bleeding edge builds of the Windows host application can be obtained from:
https://looking-glass.io/downloads
Help and support
Web
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/looking-glass-triage/130952
Discord
IRC
Join us in the #LookingGlass channel on the FreeNode network