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Romain Vimont 264110fd70 Dissociate virtual display size and capture size 
Allow capturing virtual displays at a lower resolution using
-m/--max-size.

In the original implementation in #5370, the virtual display size was
necessarily the same as the capture size. The --max-size value was only
allowed to determine the virtual display size when no explicit size was
provided.

Since the dpi was scaled down accordingly, it is often better to create
a virtual display at the target capture size directly. However, not
everything is rendered according to the virtual display DPI. For
example, a page in Firefox is rendered too big on small virtual
displays. Thus, it makes sense to be able create a virtual display at a
given size, and capture it at a lower resolution with --max-size. This
is now possible using OpenGL filters.

Therefore, change the behavior of --max-size for virtual displays:
 - --max-size does not impact --new-display without size argument
   anymore (the virtual display size is the main display size);
 - it is used to limit the capture size (whether an explicit size is
   provided or not).

This new behavior is consistent with main display capture.

Refs #5370 comment <https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/pull/5370#issuecomment-2438944401>
Refs #5370 <https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/pull/5370>
PR #5506 <https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/pull/5506>
2024-11-21 18:36:23 +01:00

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Virtual display

New display

To mirror a new virtual display instead of the device screen:

scrcpy --new-display=1920x1080
scrcpy --new-display=1920x1080/420  # force 420 dpi
scrcpy --new-display         # use the main display size and density
scrcpy --new-display=/240    # use the main display size and 240 dpi

Start app

On some devices, a launcher is available in the virtual display.

When no launcher is available, the virtual display is empty. In that case, you must start an Android app.

For example:

scrcpy --new-display=1920x1080 --start-app=org.videolan.vlc

System decorations

By default, virtual display system decorations are enabled. But some devices might display a broken UI;

Use --no-vd-system-decorations to disable it.

Note that if no app is started, no content will be rendered, so no video frame will be produced at all.