
Remote Desktop Coding Tools
A codec built for remote desktop streaming
A specialized video codec for desktop remoting with reduced operational costs and improved user experience while remaining backward compatible with existing codecs and infrastructure.


Superior remote desktop experience at lower costs
Enhance quality of experience
Deliver high-resolution and -quality video over any network, regardless of bandwidth constraints.
Cost & carbon reduction
Reduce operational costs for streaming and encoding with an energy-efficient, greener codec.
Legal & technical compliance
A business-ready solution with patent reporting and licensing, fully compatible with your tech stack and infrastructure.
Enhance quality of experience
Deliver high-resolution and -quality video over any network, regardless of bandwidth constraints.
Cost & carbon reduction
Reduce operational costs for streaming and encoding with an energy-efficient, greener codec.
Legal & technical compliance
A business-ready solution with patent reporting and licensing, fully compatible with your tech stack and infrastructure.
The competitive edge in remote desktop streaming
Remote Desktop Coding Tools (RDCT) reduces operational costs while improving user experiences. The codec empowers service providers with a more competitive and profitable offering while remaining backward compatible with existing codecs and infrastructure.
It integrates state-of-the-art coding tools and patent management with a streamlined API, ensuring risk-free integration with existing remote desktop protocols while optimizing performance for service providers and end users.

The competitive edge in remote desktop streaming
Remote Desktop Coding Tools (RDCT) reduces operational costs while improving user experiences. The codec empowers service providers with a more competitive and profitable offering while remaining backward compatible with existing codecs and infrastructure.
It integrates state-of-the-art coding tools and patent management with a streamlined API, ensuring risk-free integration with existing remote desktop protocols while optimizing performance for service providers and end users.

Next-generation video with broad compatibility
H.264 base codec
Capability to encode YUV 4:2:0 sequences into H.264 bitstreams, ensuring compatibility with industry standards.
H.264 base codec
Capability to encode YUV 4:2:0 sequences into H.264 bitstreams, ensuring compatibility with industry standards.
Enhancement layer with LCEVC
Implements the enhancement layer using MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC, improving compression efficiency while reducing the encoding and decoding complexity of the base codec. Designed to be codec-agnostic, LCEVC enhances base codecs without modification, integrating with existing workflows and ensuring future-proof adaptability.


Enhancement layer with LCEVC
Implements the enhancement layer using MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC, improving compression efficiency while reducing the encoding and decoding complexity of the base codec. Designed to be codec-agnostic, LCEVC enhances base codecs without modification, integrating with existing workflows and ensuring future-proof adaptability.
Desktop content tunning
Optimizes encoding parameters to achieve a better quality-to-bitrate ratio in desktop remoting scenarios compared to other general-purpose codecs.
Desktop content tunning
Optimizes encoding parameters to achieve a better quality-to-bitrate ratio in desktop remoting scenarios compared to other general-purpose codecs.
Unified API
Encapsulates all specialised coding tools, providing an intuitive, high-level interface for simplified integration.


Unified API
Encapsulates all specialised coding tools, providing an intuitive, high-level interface for simplified integration.
GStreamer integration
Implements the RDCT encoder and decoder as GStreamer plugins, ensuring compatibility with existing multimedia frameworks and the Fluendo Codec Pack.


GStreamer integration
Implements the RDCT encoder and decoder as GStreamer plugins, ensuring compatibility with existing multimedia frameworks and the Fluendo Codec Pack.
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