[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] vnc: adapative tight, zrle, zywrle, and bitmap module

[Alexander Graf]

Corentin Chary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I rebased the series against current master, it contains:
>
>  - Adaptive Tight Encoding: send lossy or lossless updates depending on the
>  update frequency of the screen region. If a lossy update is forced, then
>  it will be refreshed with a lossless update as soon as the update frequency
>  goes back to 0.
>
>  - ZRLE/ZYWRLE Encodings: ZYWRLE use less bandwidth than tight, but the result
>  is also probably more lossy. I wanted to make ZRLE/ZYWRLE adaptive, but this
>  is not possible because most of the vnc clients can't switch between ZRLE and
>  ZYWRLE. But a possible solution is to use another encoding for lossless 
> updates,
>  like zlib or tight.
>
>  - Bitmap module: create bitmap.h and bitops.h, and remove duplicate code
>  from vnc.c
>
> It was my last series from GSoC 2010 context, if necessary I can send 
> different
> series for adaptive vnc, zrle and bitmap stuff.
>   

Thanks a lot for doing this much during GSoC! Needless to say, we would
all love to still have you around afterwards still, even without Google
being involved :). Working with you was an amazing experience :).


Alex