Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ui/vnc: VA API based H.264 encoding for VNC

[Anthony Liguori]

"Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:45:04AM +0100, David Verbeiren wrote:
>> This patch implements H.264 encoding of the VNC framebuffer updates
>> using hardware acceleration through the VA API.
>> 
>> This is experimental support to let the community explore the possibilities
>> offered by the potential bandwidth and latency reductions that H.264
>> encoding allows. This may be particularly useful for use cases such as
>> online gaming, hosted desktops, hosted set top boxes...
>> This patch provides the VNC server side support. Corresponding VNC
>> client side support is required. To this end, we are also contributing
>> patches to the gtk-vnc and libvncserver/libvncclient projects which can be
>> used to test this experimental feature.
>
> I just mentioned on the gtk-vnc list, that I'd like to see the
> wire protocol for this encoding format documented, so we can
> review whether the proposed implementations are actually
> correctly written.

Ack.

Regards,

Antony Liguori

>
> Daniel.
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