[Spice-devel] Streaming video performance concepts

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 11:27 +0200, Alon Levy wrote:
> <snip>> Thank you very much for the explanation.  It's pretty much what I
> > expected - that the codec is different, trading CPU efficiency for
> > bandwidth inefficiency and I certainly understand the reasons why.
> > 
> > Is there any thought or plan to make the codec configurable for those
> > who are willing to sacrifice CPU for bandwidth, e.g., VP8, Theora, or
> > H.264?
> > 
> 
> I haven't done any testing on this but I think the cpu requirements are large.
> maybe with hardware doing the encoding this would work well enough. Technically
> just dropping in a different codec and extending the protocol doesn't sound like
> a lot of work. Patches welcome?
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I wish I had the skill set to help in that way! Thanks - John