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scrcpy v2.3
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scrcpy v2.3
Changes since v2.2:
- Add flipped display orientation (#1380, #3819, #4441)
- Add recording rotation (#4441)
- Add FLAC audio codec (#4410)
- Add raw audio (WAV) recording (2004881)
- Fix turn screen off for Android 14 (#3927, #4456)
- Fix camera issues on many devices (#4392)
- Fix clipboard synchronization when no video (#4418)
- Fix screen refresh on device rotation (7e3b935)
- Fix .desktop files on Linux (#4448)
- Upgrade SDL to 2.28.5 in Windows releases
- Various technical fixes
Highlights
Camera
Many problems related to camera capture with specific devices have been fixed.
If the new camera feature did not work on your device with scrcpy 2.2, you should definitely retry with scrcpy 2.3. (#4392)
Orientation
A new option --orientation
allows to rotate or flip the video. (It replaces the deprecated --rotation
option.)
It is possible to change the display orientation dynamically using shortcuts:
- rotate display left: MOD+β
- rotate display right: MOD+β
- flip display horizontally: MOD+Shift+β or MOD+Shift+β
- flip display vertically: MOD+Shift+β or MOD+Shift+β
(The two first ones already existed).
The rotation can now be applied to recording as well. For example, to capture and record a portrait video from the camera:
scrcpy --video-source=camera --camera-size=1920x1080 --orientation=90 --record=portrait.mp4
(It is not possible to apply a flip to a recorded file though, the formats and/or video players do not handle flipping as metadata, without re-encoding the video stream.)
More details in #4441 (and the documentation).
Android 14
The turn screen off feature was broken in Android 14.
It is now fixed π Read some technical details.
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scrcpy v2.2
scrcpy v2.2
Changes since v2.1.1:
- Add option to mirror camera (#241, #4213)
- Add --pause-on-exit (#4130)
- Rename --display (deprecated) to --display-id
- Fix device disconnection detection with --no-video (#4207)
- Accept --turn-screen-off without video playback (#4175)
- Upgrade SDL to 2.28.4 in Windows releases
- Upgrade platform-tools to 34.0.5 (adb) in Windows releases
- Various technical fixes
Highlights
Camera capture
The previous minor version introduced --audio-source=mic
to transmit the microphone instead of the device audio output.
This new version introduces --video-source=camera
to mirror the device camera instead of the device screen.
A bunch of new options have been added:
--list-cameras
--list-camera-sizes
--camera-id=
--camera-facing=
--camera-ar=
--camera-size=
--camera-fps=
--camera-high-speed
For example:
scrcpy --video-source=camera --camera-facing=front --camera-size=1920x1080
Check the camera documentation for more details.
Android 14
Since the last scrcpy version, Android 14 has been released.
Unfortunately, several scrcpy features have been broken by changes in this new Android version:
--turn-screen-off
(#3927): some internal functions have been removed, without replacement that scrcpy could use (it seems it also impacts the feature in Android Studio)--lock-video-orientation
(not window--rotation
, which is independent) (#4011): some function parameters are now ignored--crop
(also #4011): some function parameters are now ignored
Reported to Google/Android: issue 303565669
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scrcpy v2.1.1
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scrcpy v2.1.1
Changes since v2.1:
- Ignore fold change events for other display ids (#4120)
- Fix Meizu deadlock (#4143, #4146)
- Fix possible division by zero (#4115)
- Increase attempts to start AudioRecord (#4147)
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scrcpy v2.1
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scrcpy v2.1
Changes since v2.0:
- Add --no-video to mirror audio only (#3978)
- Add option to select the device microphone as audio source (#4044)
- Rename --no-display to --no-playback (#4033)
- Add --no-video-playback and --no-audio-playback (#4033)
- Add --time-limit to automatically stop after a given delay (#3752, #4052)
- Add option to change the audio output buffer size (#3793)
- Add option to kill adb on close (#205, #2580, #4049)
- Support dynamic device folding (#3960, #3979)
- Use OpenGL 3.0+ on macOS to support trilinear filtering (#3895)
- Add (partial) support for Android 14 (#3784, #4074, #4075)
- Improve delay buffer estimation (2f9396e)
- Fix --tcpip not working in some cases (669e9a8)
- Fix audio support for Vivo phones (#3805, #3862)
- Fix audio support for Honor phones (#4015)
- Fix copy-paste on Honor Magic 5 Pro (#3885)
- Fix audio capture starting on some Android 11+ devices (#3796)
- Fix V4L2 regression (#3795)
- Fix support of Nvidia Shield (#3801)
- Fix .desktop files for Linux (#3817)
- Fix error on device rotation while minimized on Windows (#3947)
- Fix extra audio glitches on audio buffer underflow (#4045)
- Automatically fix PTS for buggy device encoders (#4054)
- Upgrade SDL to 2.28 in Windows releases (#3825)
- Update developer documentation (#3811)
- Various technical fixes
Highlights
Audio only
Scrcpy v2.0 introduced audio forwarding, which could be disabled by --no-audio
to mirror video only.
This version adds the symmetric option --no-video
to forward audio without video.
Note that in many cases, including listening to music, audio latency is not critical, so it might be interesting to add buffering to minimize audio glitches:
scrcpy --no-video --audio-buffer=200
# interrupt with Ctrl+C
The capture can be recorded to an audio file:
scrcpy --no-video --record=file.opus
scrcpy --no-video --audio-codec=aac --record=file.aac
# .m4a/.mp4 and .mka/.mkv are also supported for both opus and aac
Capture device microphone
By default, the device audio output is forwarded.
It is now possible to capture the device microphone instead:
scrcpy --audio-source=mic
For example, to use the device as a dictaphone and record a capture directly on the computer:
scrcpy --audio-source=mic --no-video --no-playback --record=file.opus
No playback
The option -N
, initially --no-display
, has been renamed to --no-playback
, since it impacts both video and audio.
In addition, two options --no-video-playback
and --no-audio-playback
have been added to disable video and audio playback separately (--no-playback
is an alias for both).
For example:
scrcpy --v4l2-sink=/dev/video2 --no-video-playback # keep audio playback
scrcpy --record=file.mkv --no-audio-playback # keep video playback
Time limit
A new option --time-limit
allows to stop scrcpy automatically after a given delay in seconds.
For example, to record the device for 20 seconds:
scrcpy --record=file.mkv --time-limit=20
Foldable devices
Scrcpy now reacts to "fold changed" events, so it should properly mirrors foldable devices (#3979).
Device-specific fixes
Several fixes (or workarounds) for specific devices have been implemented to make audio work. If you had audio issues with your device on scrcpy v2.0, you should try this new version.
Android 14
Several errors occurred when running scrcpy with Android 14 preview, some of them have been fixed.
One notable exception is the --turn-screen-off
feature, which still does not work on Android 14. See #3784.
Developer documentation
The developer page was outdated. It has been updated for scrcpy 2.x.
It's not exhaustive, but it gives some relevant information and matches the current version.
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scrcpy v2.0
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scrcpy v2.0
Changes since v1.25:
- Add Audio forwarding (#14, #3757)
- Add H265 and AV1 video codec support (#3713)
- Add --list-displays and --list-encoders
- Fix clicks on Chrome when --forward-on-clicks is enabled (#3635)
- Retry on spurious encoder error (#3693)
- Make --turn-screen-off work on all displays (#3716)
- Restore resizing workaround for Windows (#3640)
- Upgrade platform-tools to 34.0.1 (adb) in Windows releases
- Upgrade FFmpeg to 6.0 in Windows releases (and use a minimal build)
- Upgrade SDL to 2.26.4 in Windows releases
Highlights
Read the blog post announcing the release: scrcpy 2.0, with audio.
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scrcpy v1.25
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scrcpy v1.25
Changes since v1.24:
- Adapt copy-paste internals for Android 13 (#3497)
- Add support for high-precision scrolling (#3363, #3369)
- Add desktop entry files for Linux (#295, #296, #748, #1636, #3351)
- Add bash and zsh autocompletion for -s/--serial (#3522, #3523)
- Use current adb port (if any) for --tcpip (#3591, #3592)
- Add fallback to get display information on some devices (#3416, #3573)
- Fix click behavior when --forward-all-clicks is set (#3568, #3579)
- Fix support for non-ASCII characters in window title (#2932, #3547)
- Fix getDisplayIds() crash on some versions of Android 13 beta (#3446)
- Upgrade platform-tools to 33.0.3 (adb) in Windows releases
- Upgrade FFmpeg to 5.1.2 in Windows 64-bit releases
- Upgrade SDL to 2.26.1 in Windows releases
- Various technical fixes
Highlights
Android 13
Recent method signature changes in Android 13 broke copy-paste for scrcpy (#3497). This version adapt the calls to make it work again.
High-precision scrolling
This version uses high-precision scrolling if the computer supports it. As a result, scrolling is smoother, as you can see in #3363.
Serial auto-completion
When several devices are connected, it might be necessary to pass the serial of the device to mirror.
The serial is now auto-completed in bash and zsh:
scrcpy -s <tab><tab> # auto-complete by the devices listed by "adb devices"
Menu shortcuts
Two new menu shortcuts are added on Linux (here is a screenshot on XFCE):
They allow to launch scrcpy (without arguments) either with a visible terminal or not.
To pass command line arguments, it must still be started from a terminal or a script though.
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scrcpy v1.24
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scrcpy v1.24
Changes since v1.23:
- Adapt input injection for Android 13 (#3186, #3190)
- Add --no-power-on (#3148, #3210)
- Read $ANDROID_SERIAL if no selector is specified (#3111, #3113)
- Consider emulators as TCP/IP devices (-e) (#3137)
- Apply requested window size in OTG mode (#3099, #3219)
- Add specific exit code for device disconnection (#3083, #3085)
- Enable libusb support for Windows 32-bit releases (#3204, #3206)
- Upgrade libusb to 1.0.26 in Windows releases (#3206)
- Upgrade platform-tools to 33.0.1 (adb) in Windows releases (#3206)
- Upgrade SDL to 2.0.22 in Windows releases
- Upgrade FFmpeg to 5.0.1 in Windows 64-bit releases
- Improve some error messages
- Various technical fixes
Highlights
Android 13 (preview)
Input injection from previous scrcpy versions failed on Android 13 preview (#3186). This version makes it work.
HID/OTG support for Windows 32-bit
The previous scrcpy version (v1.23) added HID/OTG support for all platforms except Windows 32-bit. By upgrading to the latest libusb version, Windows 32-bit is now supported.
$ANDROID_SERIAL
adb
uses the ANDROID_SERIAL
environment variable if no -s
is specified. Use this same variable in scrcpy
if no selector is specified (#3111):
# via a command line parameter
adb -s 0123456789abcdef shell
scrcpy -s 0123456789abcdef
# via an environment variable
export ANDROID_SERIAL=0123456789abcdef
adb shell
scrcpy
On Windows, setting an environment variable is slightly different:
:: in cmd
set ANDROID_SERIAL=0123456789abcdef
# in PowerShell
$env:ANDROID_SERIAL = '0123456789abcdef'
No power on
By default, on start, the device is powered on. A new option has been added to disable this behavior:
scrcpy --no-power-on
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scrcpy v1.23
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scrcpy v1.23
Changes since v1.22:
- Add HID/OTG support for Windows (--otg only) (#2773, #3011)
- Add HID/OTG support for macOS (#2774, #3031)
- Improve device selection (list devices, -d, -e) (#3005)
- Downscale and retry on MediaCodec error in more cases (#2990, #3043)
- Add ZSH completion script (#3012)
- Add Bash completion script (#2930, #3048)
- Add --no-cleanup option (#1764, #3020)
- Add --printf-fps (#468, #3030)
- Print both compiled and linked version of libs on --version
- Fix FPS counter (broken in v1.22)
- Various technical refactors and fixes
Highlights
HID/OTG on all platforms
Physical keyboard and mouse simulation (HID) was only available on Linux.
The previous release (v1.22) introduced a new OTG feature (--otg
), to use the computer keyboard and mouse as if they were plugged directly to the device via an OTG cable, without mirroring and without requiring adb (USB debugging).
In v1.23, this feature is now also available on Windows (with some limitations) and macOS.
HID keyboard and mouse may be used either in "mirroring" mode (the default with mirroring enabled) or OTG mode (when --otg
is passed):
# HID in mirroring mode
scrcpy --hid-keyboard --hid-mouse
scrcpy -KM # the same, but using short options
# HID in OTG mode
scrcpy --otg --hid-keyboard --hid-mouse
scrcpy --otg -KM # the same, but using short options
scrcpy --otg # also the same, both keyboard and mouse are enabled if not specified
On Windows, it is not possible to open a USB device if it is already open by another process (like the adb daemon). As a consequence, we can't send HID events if adb is running. Therefore, HID in mirroring mode is not possible, only OTG mode is supported on Windows (and the adb daemon is killed before starting). See #3011.
EDIT: And there are still issues on Windows when USB debugging is disabled: #3050 π
Also, due to an issue in the libusb prebuilt library for win32, this feature is disabled in the win32 release (it will be enabled later when it's fixed).
Also note that the mouse capture (when --hid-mouse
is enabled) has some issues on macOS. A workaround for the main problem has been implemented, but you might need an additional click to get the mouse pointer back (see #3031).
HID support | Mirroring mode | OTG mode |
---|---|---|
Linux | βοΈ | βοΈ |
macOS | βοΈ | βοΈ |
Windows 64-bit | β | βοΈ |
Windows 32-bit | β | β |
Improve device selection
Until now, if several devices were connected, scrcpy
failed with:
$ scrcpy
scrcpy 1.22 <https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy>
error: more than one device/emulator
ERROR: "adb get-serialno" returned with value 1
ERROR: Could not get device serial
ERROR: Server connection failed
This was not very user-friendly: the user had to call adb devices
manually to get the serial, then call scrcpy -s xxxxxxxxxx
explicitly.
This release introduces features to improve device selection (#3005).
If several devices are connected, scrcpy prints the list of devices:
$ scrcpy
β¦
ERROR: Multiple (3) ADB devices:
ERROR: --> (usb) fedcba09 device GM1913
ERROR: --> (usb) 01234567890abcdef unauthorized
ERROR: --> (tcpip) 192.168.1.1:5555 device Nexus_5
ERROR: Select a device via -s (--serial), -d (--select-usb) or -e (--select-tcpip)
ERROR: Server connection failed
So it is possible to immediately call scrcpy again with -s
.
In addition, two new options allow to select a USB or TCP/IP device when there is only one connected:
-d
(or--select-usb
) uses a USB device (likeadb -d
)-e
(or--select-tcpip
) uses a TCP/IP device (likeadb -e
)
For example, to run scrcpy
with the single TCP/IP device:
$ scrcpy -e
β¦
DEBUG: ADB device found:
DEBUG: (usb) fedcba09 device GM1913
DEBUG: (usb) 05f5e60a0ae518e5 unauthorized
DEBUG: --> (tcpip) 192.168.1.1:5555 device Nexus_5
To run scrcpy
with a single USB device:
$ scrcpy -d
β¦
ERROR: Multiple (2) ADB devices over USB:
ERROR: --> (usb) fedcba09 device GM1913
ERROR: --> (usb) 01234567890abcdef unauthorized
ERROR: (tcpip) 192.168.1.1:5555 device Nexus_5
ERROR: Select a device via -s (--serial), -d (--select-usb) or -e (--select-tcpip)
ERROR: Server connection failed
Since there are several devices connected over USB in this example, it fails, with a detailed error message.
In OTG mode, the USB devices are also listed for convenience:
$ scrcpy --otg
β¦
ERROR: Multiple (2) USB devices:
ERROR: --> fedcba09 (xxxx:xxxx) OnePlus SM8150-MTP
ERROR: --> 01234567890abcdef (xxxx:xxxx) LGE Nexus 5
ERROR: Select a device via -s (--serial)
Bash and ZSH completion scripts
Scrcpy has a lot of options. For convenience, auto-completion scripts were added for Bash (#3048) and ZSH (@hltdev8642, #3012).
Auto-downscale on MediaCodec error
Some devices are not able to encode a video at the device screen definition. As a consequence, for many users, the first experience with scrcpy was just a failure with a MediaCodec exception.
To solve this problem, the previous release (v1.22) added a mechanism to catch MediaCodec errors on start and automatically retry with a lower definition (scrcpy -m1024
).
However, MediaCodec may fail in different ways (#2990, #3043), and some of them were not catched. Now they are.
FPS counter
It was possible to log the capture framerate in the console (printed every second), by pressing MOD+i in the scrcpy window. It was broken in v1.22 (nobody reported it, so it's probably not widely used), it's fixed now.
This release adds a new option --print-fps
to start the FPS counter immediately.
Note that a new frame is produced only when the device screen surface "changes", so it's expected to get a low framerate depending on what you do on the device. For example:
- if you play a 25 fps fullscreen video, then the capture framerate will not be higher than 25 fps;
- if nothing changes on your screen, then the capture framerate will be 0 fps.
Contact
Scrcpy now has a twitter account: @scrcpy_app
There is also a subreddit: r/scrcpy
This might sometimes be more appropriate than GitHub issues when it's not to report a bug.
scrcpy v1.22
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scrcpy v1.22
Changes since v1.21:
- Add HID mouse support (#2916)
- Add OTG mode (HID only) (#2974)
- Enable DPI awareness by default on Windows (#40, #2865)
- Automatically retry with a lower definition on MediaCodec error (#2947)
- Add a shortcut "open a terminal here" on Windows (#2970)
- Add icon to scrcpy.exe (#2815)
- Add server options to send raw H.264 video stream (#2971)
- Fix process execution (mainly) on Windows 7 (#2838, #2840)
- Fix adb server hang due to signal masking (#2870, #2873)
- Fix input injection on some custom ROMs (#2250, #2946)
- Fix possible overflow on copy-paste (#2859)
- Upgrade SDL to 2.0.20 in Windows releases
- Upgrade FFmpeg to 5.0 in Windows 64-bit releases (#1753, #2952)
- Various technical refactors and fixes
Highlights
Add HID mouse support
Similar to the --hid-keyboard
(or -K
) added in scrcpy v1.20 (#2632), this release introduces a new option --hid-mouse
(or -M
) (#2916):
scrcpy -K # HID keyboard
scrcpy -M # HID mouse
scrcpy -KM # HID keyboard and mouse
The mouse is "captured": the mouse pointer disappears from the computer and appears on the Android device.
Special captures keys, either Alt or Super, toggle (disable or enable) the mouse capture. Use one of them to give the control of the mouse back to the computer.
These capture keys do not conflict with shortcuts, since a shortcut is always a combination of the MOD key and some other key, while the capture key triggers an action only if it is pressed and released alone.
Like HID keyboard, it works only when the device is connected via USB, and is only supported on Linux.
OTG mode
A new option --otg
(#2974) allows to run scrcpy with only physical keyboard (#2632) and mouse (#2916) simulation, without mirroring and without requiring adb (USB debugging), as if the computer keyboard and mouse were plugged directly to the device via an OTG cable.
scrcpy --otg
# Pass the serial if several USB devices are available
scrcpy --otg -s 0123456789abcdef
This opens a window (with just the scrcpy logo, there is no mirroring), which, when focused, fowards the keyboard and mouse to the device:
The mouse capture works the same as explained in the previous section.
Since it works even with USB debugging disabled (i.e. without adb), it could for example be used to enable USB debugging on a device with a broken touchscreen (to then run scrcpy normally).
Like HID keyboard and HID mouse, this feature works only when the device is connected via USB, and is only supported on Linux.
DPI awareness on Windows
With HiDPI scaling on Windows, by default the quality was awful (#40, #2865).
The FAQ explained how to force correct HiDPI scaling by the application to fix the issue, but it was not convenient (and nobody reads the FAQ anyway).
On this new version, DPI awareness is enabled by default.
"Open a terminal here" on Windows
scrcpy
is a command line application, and is configured with command line arguments.
On Windows, the file explorer lacks an "open a terminal here" feature, to open a terminal in the scrcpy directory, ready to execute adb
or scrcpy
.
The release now contains a file open_a_terminal_here.bat
(#2970). Just double-click on it.
This will simplify passing arguments on Windows, and give a hint to users who don't know how to use the command line (remember, nobody reads the FAQ).
Auto-downscale on MediaCodec error
Some devices are not able to encode a video at the device screen definition. In that case, running scrcpy
without argument just failed with an error.
The solution is simple: reduce the resolution (scrcpy -m1024
for example), as explained in the FAQ (did I mention that nobody reads the FAQ?).
In this new version, if the encoder fails before the first video frame, then scrcpy automatically retries with a lower definition (#2947), so in most cases it should work without explicitly passing a size argument.
It's better when it works out-of-the-box.
scrcpy v1.21
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scrcpy v1.21
Changes since v1.20:
- Add --tcpip option to automate TCP/IP (wireless) connections (#2827)
- Add --raw-key-events to always inject key events and ignore text events (#2816, #2831)
- Add --no-clipboard-autosync to disable automatic clipboard synchronization (#2228, #2817, #2834)
- Add --tunnel-host and --tunnel-port options (#2801, #2807)
- Ensure clipboard synchronization is performed before injecting Ctrl+v via HID keyboard (#2814)
- Adapt read/write settings for Android 12 (#2671, #2788, #2802)
- Fix hanging with multiple scrcpy instances on Windows (#2779, #2783)
- Fix quick interruption on Ctrl+c during server starting
- Print help to stdout (instead of stderr)
- Various technical refactors and fixes
NOTE: This version does not work on Windows 7 (#2838). A development version including a fix is available here: #2840.
Highlights
Simplify TCP/IP (wireless) configuration
Scrcpy uses adb
to communicate with the device. To use scrcpy wirelessly, the users had to find the device IP address and connect via TCP/IP using adb
directly.
For convenience, this version introduces a new option to configure TCP/IP connections automatically, with two variants.
If the device (accessible at 192.168.1.1 in this example) already listens on a port (typically 5555) for incoming adb connections, then run:
scrcpy --tcpip=192.168.1.1 # default port is 5555
scrcpy --tcpip=192.168.1.1:5555
If the adb TCP/IP mode is disabled (or if you don't know the IP address), connect the device over USB, then run:
scrcpy --tcpip # without arguments
It will automatically find the device IP address (by parsing adb shell ip route
), enable TCP/IP mode, then connects to the device before starting.
Configure tunneling
Two new options --tunnel-host
and --tunnel-port
(implemented by @RipleyTom) allow to connect to a remote ADB server. This allows for example to mirror a device plugged on another computer easily.
To connect to a remote ADB server (for example 192.168.1.2), make the server listen on all interfaces:
adb kill-server
adb -a nodaemon server start
# keep this open
Then, from another terminal, run scrcpy:
export ADB_SERVER_SOCKET=tcp:192.168.1.2:5037
scrcpy --tunnel-host=192.168.1.2
Note that all ADB communications between the server and the client are unencrypted.
To connect to a remote ADB server over the Internet, it is strongly recommended to use a SSH tunnel instead.
Improve Android 12 support
The way scrcpy was accessing to the settings is now blocked in Android 12 due to permission changes. In practice, --stay-awake
(#2671) and --show-touches
(#2788) were broken.
An alternative implementation (#2802) fixes the issue.
Add "raw key events" mode
There are two kinds of events generated when typing text:
- key events, signaling that a key is pressed or released;
- text events, signaling that a text has been entered.
By default, letters are injected using key events, so that the keyboard behaves as expected in games (typically for WASD keys).
An option --prefer-text
allows to inject text events even for letters and space (see text injection preference).
This version introduces a new option (--raw-key-events
, #2831), which always injects key events and ignores all text events.
This will typically result in the insertion of wrong characters for some keyboard layouts, but it may help a lot with some others (e.g. Chinese).
This option is only meaningful for the default injection method: with HID keyboard (--hid-keyboard
), all keys are sent as scancodes.
Fix hanging on multiple instances on Windows
Scrcpy v1.20 introduced an important regression on Windows, preventing to launch several scrcpy instances simultaneously on Windows (#2779). It is fixed (by #2783) in this new version.
HID keyboard and Ctrl+v
To allow seamless copy-paste (see v1.15 highlights), on Ctrl+v, a request to synchronize the computer clipboard to the device clipboard is performed before injecting Ctrl+v.
But when HID keyboard (introduced in scrcpy v1.20), is enabled, the Ctrl+v injection is not sent on the same channel as the clipboard request, so they are not serialized, and may occur in any order. As a consequence, it could happen that the old clipboard content was pasted instead of the new one.
In v1.20, to minimize the probability of occurrence of the wrong order, a delay of 2 milliseconds was added before injecting Ctrl+v: e416332. Then it was increased to 5ms: 45b0f81. But even with 5ms, the wrong behavior sometimes happens.
To handle it properly, this new version implements an acknowledgment mechanism, so that Ctrl+v is injected over AOA only after the clipboard synchronization request has been performed and acknowledged by the server (#2814).
This ensures that Ctrl+v with an HID keyboard always pastes the expected content.
Optionally disable seamless copy-paste
By default, scrcpy automatically synchronizes the computer clipboard to the device clipboard before injecting Ctrl+v, and the device clipboard to the computer clipboard whenever it changes.
A new option --no-clipboard-autosync
disables this automatic synchronization. This also disables the acknowledgment mechanism described above.
The scrcpy shortcuts MOD+c, MOD+x and MOD+v still allow explicit copy, cut and paste, even in this mode.