[Spice-devel] RFC: Media redirection for Spice remote computing solution, an event for FOSDEM'14, Virtualization dev room

[Steven Newbury]

On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 18:16 +0400, Fedor Lyakhov wrote:
> Thanks, David!
> 
> We have an internal proof of concept based on private VoIP softphone,
> Thrift over TCP as RPC and Google WebRTC as Media Engine - and the
> softphone is capable of audio calls and remote control of audio
> devices. So now we're confident it can work.
> 
> We hope to create open-source prototype for a demo GStreamer-based
> audio player by the end of January. Depending on how it goes, we will
> add basic integration with Spice as well.
Wouldn't it be possible to implement this at the acceleration layer
within the guest by providing a VDPAU or VA-API (and Windows API
equivalent) driver which offloads the hw decoding of the media stream to
the Spice client?