[Spice-devel] Thoughts about improving streaming video

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:38 +0200, Andrea Celestino wrote: 
> Talking about improving streaming video in spice, I am working on a
> thesis project about Spice, in particular how it handles streaming
> video, only in Linux.
> 
> 
> In particular I would like to know if there are possibilities to
> improve it by
> - replacing mjpeg with another encoder?
> - or changing how stream data are transmitted to the client? for
> example using a separate socket for the video and give it higher
> priority?
> 
> 
> Do you think that is quite complex to implement this works ? The
> second solution seems easier, but I don't know if can improve
> something.
> I read the spice code and all streaming-related stuff, but I would
> like to know in advance if this work is too complex before starting
> it.
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With my manager and network engineer hats on, I would seriously frown
upon the second idea.  I would not want someone's watching the latest
YouTube video and CNN news report to take priority over mission critical
data entry or reporting.

I would guess that bandwidth is by far and away the most limiting factor
so moving to a more efficient encoding as discussed previously seems to
be the way to go.  That's said knowing just about zero about the actual
code :) Thanks - John