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

[David Mansfield]

On 06/12/2012 09:11 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> ----- Mensaje original -----
>> The ideal solution would be to have support for Opus, I think Marc
>> André
>> and Alon had started to look into that, but that's not done yet :(
> No, I didn't. Long time ago I proposed we have celt unstable flag, which
> would be completely broken in most cases but would also have made debian
> folks happy.
>
> As long as the bitstream is not frozen, we can't use opus, or we will
> have the same problems as with celt today.
>
> Sadly, I think debian folks aren't looking at what is really celt051.
> We could just have renamed it to "spicelt" and they wouldn't even have
> said a word I bet.
What about a client popup "no audio codecs available.  audio will be 
disabled" if/when the detected bandwidth is below some margin, or just 
completely assuming nothing other than raw PCM is available.  Or a 
warning that the low bandwidth will impact performance and give the user 
the option to disable audio.

A user trying to "fix" their problem would google "debian spice no audio 
codec" and presumably come across this thread ;-) and curse at the 
politics of software development.

Thanks,
David