In one example, a method for transmitting video data includes capturing a plurality of sets of graphical command tokens respectively renderable into a plurality of frames of video data; and responsive to determining that a length of a current set of graphical command tokens of the plurality of sets of graphical command tokens is the same as a length of a previous set of the plurality of sets of graphical command tokens, outputting, by a source device and to a sink device, a compressed version of the current set of graphical command tokens.