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. Daniel. -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
