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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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.
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