As a keen believer in laziness I have recently started to use Veency and Chicken of the VNC to control my iPhone from a distance. However, as both pieces of software are new additions in my arsenal I was stumped when I kept getting an error message when moving around the screen.
Unknown rectangle encoding 1835861421
Completely stumped by the error I decided to give RealVNC a go, which threw up a slightly different error message, which immediately pointed out that ZRLE encoding was at fault. Now I’ve been using VNC for as long as I’ve been working in IT Support, so I am a big fan, however I was still determined to fix Chicken of the VNC for my own piece of mind.
So – if you are having the same problem and you’d like to fix it:
- Open Chicken of the VNC
- Click on ‘Connection’
- Click on ‘Connection Profiles’
- Untick all Ecoding’s besides ‘Raw’
- Close the profiles window down and reconnect.
That’s it…It really is as simple as that! If you have an alternative solution why not let me know using the comments section below.