<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre> Hi, > I think nearly all GPUs, Intel ones included can do on-board H264 encoding now, > the vaapi for Intel exports this ability, not sure how to expose it on > non-intel GPUs, > or how they expose it under Windows etc. > > The problem for us is the usual patent minefield around h264. Yep. Offloading the work to the hardware may get around that. IANAL though. But not having a software fallback for patent reasons isn't very nice. Especially on the decoding end. Encoding without hardware support probably isn't very useful anyway. cheers, Gerd</pre> </blockquote> What about hardware acceleration with the actual codec (mjpeg) or vp8 or vp9 codec? Unfortunately, from what I have seen until now cpu is overloaded without a dedicated video codec hardware acceleration, which renders spice client performances very poor even if on medium/high range thin client and unusable with a low end ones. Thanks for any reply. </body> </html>