Tag: Streaming

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Adaptive Codec Selection: When to Use Tiles vs H.264

How Astropad's LIQUID protocol dynamically switches between tile-based encoding and H.264/HEVC based on content motion. Covers the decision algorithm, hysteresis, seamless transitions, and AIMD rate control.

Apr 10, 2026adaptive-bitrateastropadh264streamingvideo-encoding

Tile-Based Screen Streaming: How Astropad Achieves 16ms Latency

Deep dive into Astropad's tile-based LIQUID protocol: GPU-accelerated tile diffing with Metal compute shaders, adaptive codec switching between tiles and H.264/HEVC, LZ4 compression, and the architecture that achieves 16ms end-to-end latency.

Apr 10, 2026astropadgpulow-latencymacosmetalstreaming

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