[Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

[Gerd Hoffmann]

   Hi,

>> If you don't want package celt 0.5.1 -- fine.  You can patch your
>> spice server and client to just not signal the celt capability, and
>> they will interoperate just fine with everybody else using raw
>> uncompressed audio.  But IMHO it would be stupid to not support
>> audio compression in your spice packages.  That is your call though.
>
> It would be stupid if 0.5.1 was the only choice for compression.

Right now it is, although we are looking for other options.  It isn't 
top priority though.

> There isn't going to be a Debian release with spice in it for around
> 2 years now in the best case, so if there isn't another suitable choice
> available by then, then something worse than this has gone badly wrong.

Two years should be enough time, maybe we even have celt (or its 
successor) with a stable bitstream format by then.

> Why not just let systems negotiate the best codec they both know?

Will surely happen as soon as we'll have more than one codec ;)

cheers,
   Gerd