[Spice-devel] [PATCH] make celt to be optional

[Michael Tokarev]

On 12.06.2012 13:15, Alexander Larsson wrote:
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> Its not incompatible, like I i said in my "(Well, .." part above. But
> what it means is that it will send audio as PCM instead of compressing
> it. This is much larger, and will cause anyone using the debian spice
> client to connect to a spice server (even one that supports celt) to use
> much more bandwidth due to this. Its not very obvious that the reason

Why do you think it is really that bad?  When used in a LAN, bandwidth
doesn't matter, and it will even work a tiny bit better due to less
cpu usage for encoding/decoding.  It may matter for slow/long Internet
links, but these are much less important for audio.  Also, audio does
not come alone usually (except of a few windows sounds), it usually
comes together with video (ie, movies etc), which has their own
requiriments which are much stronger than even raw audio.

I'm not saying celt or other codec is bad or not needed, something
is definitely worth to have to be able to transmit audio cheaply,
but it is not the first priority thing for sure.

Much more important is to have good visual expirence, and this is what
spice is all about, and this is something what is not changed by this
patch.

Do you not agree?

> for this is that Debian decided to package Spice that way, but rather
> the likely conclusion that any user would draw is that Spice just works
> like that. Thats not exactly a good impression for Spice.

Thanks,

/mjt