[Spice-devel] Spice + Thinclients + Hardware acceleration

[David Jaša]

thomast at cs.tu-berlin.de píše v So 12. 11. 2011 v 22:56 +0100:
> Hi,
> I planning to use Spice in a Infrastructure-Project.
> The idea is to use Thinclients with the spice-client-gtk/libspice-gtk.
> Now I have find a Thinclient thats have sufficient Performance for all
> Spice-Features.
> 
> I tried find out if the current spice-client uses the GPU in any way (e.g
> via OpenGL). I guess Cairo is currently the only one used Lib that utilize
> Hardware-Acceleration-Features ?
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> My current Test-Thinclient-Hardware (1Ghz CPU,1 GB Ram, OpenGL 2.0 GPU)
> have massive Problems with Video-Playback (CPU-Load 100%).
> 
> Do you plan on mid or long term to use any "Acceleration-Features" (e.g
> VAAPI,XvBA,GPGPU) to improve the improve Video-Playback or should I try to
> get a Thinclient with better CPU ?
> 
> Has anyone experiences with Minimum System/Hardware Requirements for
> fluently Playback of an 720p Video via Spice ?
> 

Spice currently transmits video streams series of JPEGs in resolution
that is displayed in client, so for worst-case scenario, the hardware
should be able to decode MJPEG @ maximum screen resolution (for full
screen video in full screen spice client)

HTH,

David

> Greetings
> Thomas Tyminski
> Berlin , Germany
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