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@BenTech2 BenTech2 released this 21 Oct 18:40
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v0.2.0
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Silkscreen turns any computer, tablet or phone into a wireless monitor for another — made to keep great screens without a video input, like the original Surface Studio and Retina iMacs, out of e-waste. Free and open source, with no paid features, ever.

Every device needs this version: the connection protocol changed (version 3), so 0.2.0 can't talk to 0.1.0. Update the Android app too.

New

  • Several displays at once. Each display has Extend (its own virtual monitor) and Mirror (a copy of one of your screens). Mirrored displays share one capture and one encode.
  • Settings change live while connected — bitrate, codec, encoder and packet size switch instantly; source, resolution, size and refresh reconnect for a moment.
  • Better on Wi-Fi: Skip ahead after N ms on the display drops a backlog and jumps back to live; Frame rate limit on the host sends fewer frames.
  • System tray / menu bar icon and start at login (window, tray or straight into display mode). Both off unless you turn them on.
  • Everything is in the app now — every command-line option has a setting, and settings are remembered.
  • PyroWave (experimental): a GPU codec with sub-millisecond encode and decode for wired Ethernet. Needs an Apple Silicon Mac or a recent Vulkan GPU on both ends.
  • Hardware decoding can be switched mid-stream (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H), and the debug overlay shows how far behind the picture is.

Fixed

  • macOS: the window could stay black; it no longer uses a full CPU core while hidden; proper Dock and menu bar icons.
  • Windows: starts on Intel graphics (uses Direct3D 12) and no longer fails to start when Smart App Control blocks the PyroWave library; writes a log to %APPDATA%\silkscreen\config\silkscreen.log.
  • Mirroring an existing screen on macOS no longer stretches it.

Downloads

System File
Windows 10/11 (x64) silkscreen-windows-x64.zip — not code-signed yet: choose More info → Run anyway if Windows warns
macOS 12.3+ (Apple Silicon) silkscreen-macos-arm64.zip
Linux x86_64 silkscreen-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Raspberry Pi 4/5 (64-bit) silkscreen-linux-aarch64.tar.gz
Android 11+ silkscreen-android.apk — installs as an update over 0.1.0

The macOS and Linux files are built by GitHub after publishing and appear a few minutes (Raspberry Pi: up to about 40 minutes) later.

Licenses and credits for everything included: THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md and THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md (also inside each download).

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