Sturmflut

Sturmflut is a very fast pixelflut client with full IPv6 support written entirely in C. It can handle both ordinary image files and animations.

Compiling

Dependencies

• pkg-config
• pthread
• ImageMagick
• MagickWand

On debian-based systems all required dependencies can be installed using

apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libmagick++-dev libmagickwand-dev

Use make.

Usage

./sturmflut <host> [file to send] [-p <port>] [-a <source ip address>] [-i <0|1>] [-t <number of threads>] [-m] [-o <offset-spec>] [-O] [-s <percentage>] [-S] [-h]

host: IP address of pixelflut server
file to send: Image/Animation to show

-p: Server port
-i: Ignore broken broken pipe
-t: Number of threads used for flooding
-m: Monochrome mode (send only 0|1 instead of RRGGBBAA)
-o: Offset at which to draw, format: <x-offset>:<y-offset>
-O: Optimize animations, send only pixels that have changed between frames
-s: Sparse mode, send only <percentage> of pixels
-S: Data saver mode, transmit every frame of an animation only once instead of flooding it
-h: Show usage

Example

./sturmflut 127.0.0.1 animation.gif

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