Re: VNC multihead and size change extension

2009-03-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2009-03-13 13:01 skrev Pierre Ossman: Hi, We've been working on client initiated screen size changes and need to extend the protocol to do that. In order to minimise the number of extensions, we'd also like to accommodate multi-head configurations with this new protocol. So we'd like your

Re: VNC multihead and size change extension

2009-03-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2009-03-16 11:45 skrev Pierre Ossman: On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:44:07 +0100 Peter Rosin wrote: Hi Pierre! There is also the WMVi pseudo-encoding (0x574d5669, or WMVi in FourCC) to consider. A problem with this new proposal is that *both* WMVi and this multihead scheme are better than the

Re: VNC multihead and size change extension

2009-03-16 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:29:38 +0100 Peter Rosin p...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Den 2009-03-16 11:45 skrev Pierre Ossman: That would be very against the RFB mentality, yes. But the wiki entry you pointed to suggests that these encodings are just used for offline rendering. At that point there

Re: VNC multihead and size change extension

2009-03-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2009-03-16 15:00 skrev Pierre Ossman: On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:29:38 +0100 Peter Rosin wrote: Den 2009-03-16 11:45 skrev Pierre Ossman: That would be very against the RFB mentality, yes. But the wiki entry you pointed to suggests that these encodings are just used for offline rendering. At

Re: VNC multihead and size change extension

2009-03-16 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:54:20 +0100 Peter Rosin p...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Den 2009-03-16 15:00 skrev Pierre Ossman: Annoying. Do they also rely on putting the conversion requirements on the client? Yes. If a client claims support for WMVi, it has to support all pixfmts (or disconnect on

Re: VNC multihead and size change extension

2009-03-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2009-03-16 18:15 skrev Pierre Ossman: On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:54:20 +0100 Peter Rosin wrote: Den 2009-03-16 15:00 skrev Pierre Ossman: Annoying. Do they also rely on putting the conversion requirements on the client? Yes. If a client claims support for WMVi, it has to support all pixfmts