Releases: Genymobile/scrcpy
scrcpy v1.13
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scrcpy v1.13
Changes since v1.12.1:
- Add option to lock video orientation (#218, #1151)
- Add shortcuts to rotate the display (#218, #1274)
- Mirror secondary displays (#397, #898, #1177, #1238)
- Enable trilinear filtering when possible (#40, #1284)
- Add --render-driver parameter (#1284)
- Accept --max-fps before Android 10 (#488)
- Accept negative window position (#1242)
- Use another local port if 27183 is not available (#945, #951)
- Forward NumPad keys when NumLock is disabled (#1188)
- Fix issues when directory contains non-ASCII chars on Windows (#1002)
Do not print irrelevant workarounds errors (#994)- Fix possible BufferUnderflowException on touch event (#1245)
- Upgrade FFmpeg to 4.2.2 in Windows releases
- Upgrade SDL to 2.0.12 in Windows releases
Highlights
Rotation
The previous release (v1.12) added Ctrl+r to request the device to switch between portrait and landscape.
This release adds two additional rotation features, which do not change the device orientation:
- an option to lock the video orientation
- shortcuts to rotate display at any time
Lock video orientation
The parameter --lock-video-orientation changes the mirroring orientation:
scrcpy --lock-video-orientation 0 # natural orientation
scrcpy --lock-video-orientation 1 # 90° counterclockwise
scrcpy --lock-video-orientation 2 # 180°
scrcpy --lock-video-orientation 3 # 90° clockwiseThe locked orientation affects the recording, and never changes across the session.
Display rotation
New shortcuts are introduced to rotate the display at any time:
Ctrl+←(left) rotates the display 90° counterclockwiseCtrl+→(right) rotates the display 90° clockwise
This affects only the display, not the recording.
The initial value may also be provided on start via --rotation. Possible values are 0, 1, 2 and 3 (having the same meaning as that of --lock-video-orientation).
Multi-display
Some devices may expose secondary displays, like Samsung DeX (#397). To mirror them, a new flag --display has been added:
scrcpy --display 1
Limitations
The secondary display may only be controlled if the device runs at least Android 10 (otherwise it is mirrored in read-only).
Sometimes, mirroring the secondary display just shows a black screen (if some flag called FLAG_SUPPORTS_PROTECTED_BUFFERS is set for the display). There is no known solution for now (see discussions #898 and #1177).
Downscaling quality (trilinear filtering)
If the scrcpy window is far smaller (in pixels) than the Android device, visual quality can be very low (#40, #1284).
To improve the quality, trilinear filtering is enabled when possible (OpenGL 3.0+ or OpenGL ES 2.0+):
(see this comment for more details)
Mipmapping is automatically enabled if the rendering is done by OpenGL 3.0+ or OpenGL ES 2.0+.
On Windows, you may want to force OpenGL (instead of Direct3D) to benefit from this improvement:
scrcpy --render-driver=opengl
On macOS, it is not supported (there is no OpenGL 3.0).
To force-disable mipmaps even on supported versions of OpenGL, use --no-mipmaps.
scrcpy v1.12.1
scrcpy v1.12
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scrcpy v1.12
Changes since v1.11:
- Add shortcut (Ctrl+r) to rotate device screen (#11)
- Respect scrolling configuration on macOS (#966)
- Initialize Application object (fix crashes on some devices) (#940)
- Restore the .jar extension on the device (fix crashes on some
devices) (#944) - Inject mouse events with a virtual device id (fix crashes on some
devices) (#962) - Refuse to push server if it points to a directory (#956)
Highlights
This is a small release: one feature and some fixes.
Shortcut to rotate device screen
It is now possible to rotate the device screen (switch between portrait and landscape modes): Ctrl+r.
Note that it rotates only if the application in foreground supports the requested orientation.
Fix natural scrolling
On macOS, the scroll direction can be configured, but was not respected by scrcpy. (#966)
Device crashes fixes
Some changes introduced in v1.10 caused crashes on some devices (#940 and #944, impacting many users). Another bug crashing an Android TV box have been fixed (#962).
scrcpy v1.11
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scrcpy v1.11
Changes since v1.10:
- Add support for touchscreens/multitouch (#22, #865)
- Add --max-fps to limit the frame rate (Android 10 only) (#488)
- Add options to set an initial window size and position (#762)
- Add option to disable window decorations (#762)
- Add --prefer-text option (#650)
- Add manpage
- Fix copy-paste on Android 10 devices (#796)
- Fix "turn screen off" on Android 10 devices (#835)
- Fix clicks not working in some games (#635)
- Fix device rotation while the window is maximized (#750)
- Fix scrcpy-noconsole.exe (#691)
- Fix HiDPI support (#829)
- Fix segfault on empty file recorded (#918)
- Fix recorded video to avoid crashes in Adobe Premiere (#702)
- Fix segfault on recording with old FFmpeg versions (#707)
- Fix several crashes on some devices (like Meizu) (#240, #365, #921)
- Upgrade FFmpeg to 4.2.1 in Windows releases
- Upgrade platform-tools to 29.0.5 (adb) in Windows releases
Highlights
Touchscreen / multitouch
On a computer with a touchscreen, scrcpy now allows to control the device using several fingers, for example to zoom an image or a map.
Android 10
Several features (copy-paste, turn screen off) had been adapted to work on Android 10.
In addition, a new option --max-fps have been added to limit the mirroring frame rate (only works on Android 10). This may help with wireless or remote control (for example over an SSH tunnel).
More devices supported
Some devices (typically Meizu phones) did not work due to crashes in their ROM when running scrcpy. Workarounds have been implemented to make them work.
scrcpy v1.10
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scrcpy v1.10
Changes since v1.9:
- Reduce latency by 1 frame (#646)
- Record asynchronously
- Use Cmd instead of Ctrl for shortcuts on macOS when possible (#642)
- Add option to set a custom window title (#120, #614)
- Add option to change the push target (#659)
- Make --turn-screen-off work for Android Q devices (#586, #587)
- Prevent to turn screen off if no control (#608)
- Upgrade FFmpeg to 4.1.4 in Windows releases
- Upgrade platform-tools to 29.0.2 (adb) in Windows releases
- Upgrade SDL to 2.0.10 in Windows releases
Highlights
Reduced latency
One major goal of scrcpy is to mirror Android devices with minimal latency.
However, the way the H.264 video stream was parsed by FFmpeg introduced a latency of one frame. As a consequence, a frame was not sent to the decoder before the next one was (partially) received.
In this release, this part has been rewritten so that a frame is decoded as soon as it is received, by taking advantage of the knowledge of packet boundaries on the device side.
As detailed in #646, this effectively reduces the latency by one frame. For example, in 800x448 (-m 800), the end-to-end latency can be as low as one frame (for a video at 30 fps, about ~35ms):
Asynchronous recording
Recording the video stream (with scrcpy --record file.mkv) while mirroring consists in muxing, on the computer side, the H.264 packets in an MKV or MP4 container (without reencoding).
For simplicity, this muxing was done by the thread receiving the stream and feeding the decoder. In practice, it worked well enough, but whenever writing the file took too much time (during a blocking I/O call), this delayed the decoding of the following frames.
For maximum performance even when recording is enabled, the recorder now uses a dedicated thread.
macOS shortcuts
Mac users reported that Cmd was more natural than Ctrl for scrcpy shortcuts. Many shortcuts have been changed: see shortcuts.
scrcpy v1.9
scrcpy v1.9
Changes since v1.8:
- Add feature to turn screen off while mirroring (#175)
- Add device-to-computer clipboard copy (#145)
- Add computer-to-device clipboard copy (#413)
- Find scrcpy-server.jar in the correct directory on Windows
- Fix mouse focus clickthrough
- Do not minimize the window on focus loss (#554)
- Disable X11 compositor bypass (#522)
- Continue text injection on failed character (#509)
- Bind Home key to MOVE_HOME instead of HOME screen (#555)
- Do not crash if expanding/collapsing panels is not supported (#506)
- Do not power on the device if --no-control is set
- Improve framerate counting
- Add runtime option to render expired frames (i.e. not skip frames)
- Downgrade SDL to 2.0.8 in Windows releases (#425)
- Upgrade FFmpeg to 4.1.3 in Windows releases
- Upgrade platform-tools to 29.0.1 (adb) in Windows releases
Highlights
Here are some highlights of the changes introduced by scrcpy 1.9.
Turn device screen off
Many users requested to turn the device screen off while mirroring (#145).
It is now possible at any time, by pressing Ctrl+o. To turn it back on, just use the POWER button (or Ctrl+p), once to switch off the (mirrored) device, once again to turn both the physical and mirroring on.
To turn the device screen off on start:
scrcpy --turn-screen-off
scrcpy -S
Copy-paste in both directions
It was already possible to copy-paste from the computer to the Android device (Ctrl+v), by injecting the text character by character (with all the limitations of text injection).
Now, it is also possible to copy the Android device clipboard (Ctrl+c) to paste it on the computer.
In addition, Ctrl+Shift+v allow to copy the computer clipboard to the device, but without pasting it, so that it can then be pasted manually on Android. That way, the clipboard content is not broken by text injection, so it can be used to transmit any text with special characters (an UTF-8 stream).
Windows PATH simplification
On all platforms except Windows, the absolute path of scrcpy-server.jar is hardcoded (typically to /usr/share/scrcpy/scrcpy-server.jar), so it is straightforward to know its path.
On Windows however, the server path may not be constant, so the build is "portable": scrcpy-server.jar is expected to be in the same directory as scrcpy.exe. Concretely, to push the server to the device, scrcpy just executed:
adb push scrcpy-server.jar /data/local/tmp/
The problem is that scrcpy-server.jar is searched in the current directory, which is not necessarily the same as the scrcpy directory. Typically, if you added the scrcpy directory in your PATH to call scrcpy from anywhere, the current directory could be anything. This was very annoying and confusing (you had to set the environment variable SCRCPY_SERVER_PATH as a workaround).
Now, on Windows, the server path will be built based on the scrcpy executable path, so it works out-of-the-box.
Mouse focus clickthrough
When scrcpy doesn't have focus, it needed one click to get focus, and another click to actually "click" on the device.
Mouse focus clickthrough was enabled in earlier versions, but a stupid regression broke it in v1.8. It has been fixed.
scrcpy v1.8
scrcpy v1.7
scrcpy v1.6
scrcpy v1.6
Changes since v1.5:
- Mirror secure content (#36)
- Fix warning "Invalid return value 0 for stream protocol" (#333)
- Correctly handle mouse events outside device screen (#353, #357)
- Avoid empty arguments not correctly handled on some devices (#337)
- Keep screensaver enabled while scrcpy is running (#380)
- Update FFmpeg to 4.1 included in Windows releases
scrcpy v1.5
rom1v
Romain Vimont
scrcpy v1.5-fixversion
Changes since v1.5 initial release:
- Bump version to 1.5 (as shown by scrcpy --version) (#332)
Changes since v1.4: