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Hi I'm stuck and I did not find anything helpful on the internet. I'm trying to make a screen-sharing program in python. The problem is that I can't send the screen in at least 24 fps, because when I take a screenshot with PIL (ImageGrab), something delays there. my client will get the picture (screenshot) from the server and "blit" it to the screen using pygame.

Server:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-


import socket
import os
import threading
from PIL import ImageGrab
def RetrFile(name, sock):

    while 1:
        img = ImageGrab.grab()
        img.save("PATH_TO_PIC")

        filename = "PATH_TO_PIC"
        sock.send(str(os.path.getsize(filename)))
        with open('PATH_TO_PIC', 'rb') as f:
            bytesToSend = f.read(1024)
            sock.send(bytesToSend)
            while bytesToSend != "":
                bytesToSend = f.read(1024)
                sock.send(bytesToSend)

def Main():
   host = '0.0.0.0'
   port = 5000

   s = socket.socket()
   s.bind((host,port))

   s.listen(5)
   print "Server Started."

   while True:
       c, addr = s.accept()
       print "Client connected ip: <"+ str(addr) + ">"
       t = threading.Thread(target = RetrFile, args = ("retrThread", c))
       t.start()
   s.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    Main()

Client:

import socket
import pygame as pg
def Main():
    host = '127.0.0.1'
    port = 5000


    pg.init()
    display_screen = pg.display.set_mode((1900, 1000))



    clock = pg.time.Clock()

    s = socket.socket()
    s.connect((host,port))
    filename =  "PATH_TO_PIC"
    isExit = False
    while not isExit:

        for event in pg.event.get():
            if event.type == pg.QUIT:
                isExit = True
        data = s.recv(1024)
        print data
        filesize = long(data)

        f = open(filename, 'wb')
        data = s.recv(1024)
        totalRecv  =  len(data)
        f.write(data)
        while totalRecv < filesize:
            data = s.recv(1024)
            totalRecv += len(data)
            f.write(data)
        showImg = pg.image.load('PATH_TO_PIC')
        display_screen.blit(showImg, (0,0))
        pg.display.flip()
        clock.tick(60)
    s.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    Main()

Basically my question is: how to share a screen between 2 computers, I don't know if the way of sending a lot of pictures using PIL is efficient and right. is there a more efficient way? that casts the screen of computer no.1 and shows it at computer no.2 ?