[Spice-devel] Streaming video command line

Alon Levy alevy at redhat.com
Mon Apr 11 07:07:51 PDT 2011


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 03:48:08PM +0200, Andrea Celestino wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed Spice and now I'm trying to use it. I'm interested in how
> spice manage streaming video. I read that there is the option
> 
> -streaming-video=[all|off|filter]
> 
> Can you explain me the difference between these three option?
> Which source file read the command line?
> Why I have tried to play a video in a player but i have not notice any
> difference between the two options 'off' and 'filter'?
> 

Look at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/tree/server/red_worker.c

search for STREAM_VIDEO_FILTER

The switch toggles modes for creating streams:
 off - never create
 all/filter - create either based on smallest size, or just based on
 number of consecutive opaque copies to same area.

> Thanks very much for the help.

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