[Spice-devel] Announcing spice 0.9.0

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 23:41 +0300, Alon Levy wrote:
> <snip>> > I don't think there is *that* much difference between 0.8 and 0.9 - if you
> > > want to see the improvement Christophe did to the mjpeg encoding, sure, but
> > > don't expect it to fix the 1:5 ratio you noticed. I haven't tried to
> > > reproduce that ratio yet - so I don't know if it is your environment or
> > > just a shortage of spice, but the bottom line is it won't be fixed by
> > > switching to 0.9
> > > 
> > > > it safe to use the 0.8 source rpms and rebuild with new source? If not,
> > > > we'll simply compile from source and try to keep it all straight.
> > > > Thanks - John
> > > > 
> > > It shoud work by just dropping in the 0.9 source and changing the version
> > > in the spec, or you can build from source.
> > > 
> > We'll give it a whirl and I'll rebuild the RPMs.
> > 
> > I'm eager to see the video difference as video is one of the big drivers
> > of our interest in SPICE.  To reap the benefits, do both sides of the
> > connection need to be using libjpeg-turbo, e.g., I don't think that's an
> > easy option on Squeeze right now.  Thanks - John
> > 
> 
> It is better to have turbo-jpeg on both ends, but it's independent - decoding
> is probably faster with it too, but this change is just to the encoder. I think
> spicy already uses turbo-jpeg, not sure about spicec.
> 
Hmmm . . . does that mean spicy has statically linked libjpeg-turbo?
Again, I ask because of Debian and I assume that is important because we
are striving for a more than just RedHat solution.  I'm not an expert at
all but it seems like Debian is still struggling with libjpeg6.2 versus
libjpeg8.  I think libjpeg-turbo is either only in unstable or
experimental.  If libjpeg-turbo is not available in the distribution,
will spicy as a client still be able to use it?

It's important to us because most of our servers are RedHat based but
the desktops are Debian.  We contemplated Fedora desktops but KDE4 is a
showstopper.  We are using Trinity with Debian Squeeze.  Thanks - John