[Spice-devel] How much CPU load will spice server take? Is it possible to take spice client to do more processing?

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 11/17/2010 06:47 AM, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
>>> And if I'm understanding it right, in the futur features "Video
>>> acceleration" is expected to address this use case?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, note though that there is no ETA of this feature yet.
>
> Yep, I've noticed that (i've been following the spice-space website for more than a year now...).
>
>>
>>> By the way, let's imagine that I'm playing some flash video (youtube
>>> for example) in full-screen. Is the flash plugin actually using the
>>> "upscaling" 2D command, so that this is done client-side ?
>>
>> Yes, if you play normal resolution flash videos fullscreened on a
>> monitor with say 1920x1080, you will
>> see this will work fine. OTOH if you play hd resolution flashvideos,
>> you will see the same problem
>> as with playing local hd videos multiplied by the flash is a cpu hog
>> factor :(
>
> Hmmm... Unfortunately this is a well known flash issue....
> They just started to provide versions that use Intel/AMD-ATI/nVidia acceleration, I'm not sure they are considering QXL yet!
> By the way for my personal culture, I'm not aware of qxl internals but do you already know how it should work? : provide OpenGL generic APIs to the applications, transmit them through the network layer and execute them on client's side, or provide specific wrapper that reflects the client's card driver?
>

This is not decided / designed yet.

Regards,

Hans