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

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:14:36AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> However, that is imho a different issue than the celt051 support. A new
> release of spice client and server supporting opus does not magically
> make old servers and client disappear, so it would still be the case
> that e.g. debian spice client would get lame audio performance if
> connecting to say a RHEV spice client, or if some old client connects to
> a server running on debian. In time, it would perhaps make sense to drop
> celt051 support, but its seems pretty bad to release a client binary
> that doesn't do audio well with all currently existing deployed servers.

It all depends if we consider remote SPICE access with limited bandwidth and
with audio needed will be an important use case that must run as good as
possible. In my opinion, sound is most of the time not the most important
thing if what you want is a remote desktop. It also won't be really
noticeable on LAN, or in GNOME Boxes use case, ...

What I gather from this thread is that we don't want anyone to use the
fallback PCM code, which means we should deprecate it if that's really what
we want... Maybe the clients could be patched to stop advertising raw PCM
support? I don't know if no audio at all is more acceptable than not doing
audio well in some cases.

Christophe
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