Picture quality
Adaptive or full quality, colour depth and compression.
Adaptive and Full
The Quality tile in the session controls has two settings:
- Adaptive: fast while things move, and exact once the screen is still or you zoom in. While you work, BoxView shows the same compressed picture Apple's Screen Sharing uses; when the screen settles, it fetches an exact copy.
- Full Quality: always exact, but slower when much of the screen changes at once.
If the Mac's adaptive picture can't be read on a display, BoxView switches to Full Quality by itself and says so.
For each Mac
In the Mac's Controls settings:
| Setting | Choices |
|---|---|
| Use Adaptive Quality | Always (the default), Remote Only or Never. |
| Colour Depth | Very High, or High (Thousands of Colours) for slow connections. |
| Use Image Compression | Always, Remote Only or Never (the default). |
Desktop Scaling Quality, in the Advanced settings, sets how sharp the picture is when the Mac scales it down.