[Spice-devel] Problem with spice and remote-viewer - stream data too late

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

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> 
> Dear spice developers.
> I'm trying to setup a thin client running a light linux distribution
> called Porteus (based on slackware) which must be used to connect to
> remote virtual machines managed by ovirt using spice.
> I compiled from source the needed spice packages, namely:
> 
> spice-0.12.3
> spice-gtk-0.20
> spice-xpi-2.8-3
> virt-viewer-0.5.6
> usbredir-0.6
> 
> and others needed for dependencies, like:
> 
> celt051-0.5.1.3
> gstreamer-0.10.36
> libjpeg-turbo-1.2.1
> vala-0.20.1

Are you using the gst audio backend? The PulseAudio backend is better supported on Linux atm. Yonit did some changes in spice-gtk 0.20 that could explain your issue.

> etc..
> 
> The problem is that I'm facing strong performances issues, in particular
> when I connect using firefox+spice-xpi plugin or remote-viewer.
> The video stream is very intermittent and the audio is not present at all.
> Looking at the debug output I see a lot of messages like:
> 
> (remote-viewer:2419): GSpice-DEBUG: channel-display.c:1459 display-2:0:
> stream data too late by 6 ms (ts: 35717802, mmtime: 35717808), dropin
> (remote-viewer:2419): GSpice-DEBUG: channel-display.c:1459 display-2:0:
> stream data too late by 10 ms (ts: 35717877, mmtime: 35717887), dropin
> (remote-viewer:2419): GSpice-DEBUG: channel-display.c:1459 display-2:0:
> stream data too late by 16 ms (ts: 35717912, mmtime: 35717928), dropin
> (remote-viewer:2419): GSpice-DEBUG: channel-display.c:1459 display-2:0:
> stream data too late by 9 ms (ts: 35717999, mmtime: 35718008), dropin
> (remote-viewer:2419): GSpice-DEBUG: channel-display.c:1459 display-2:0:
> stream data too late by 14 ms (ts: 35718034, mmtime: 35718048), dropin
> 
> and the video hangs.
> 
> Using spicec the performances are slightly better (the video doesn't
> stop) and I'm able to get the audio.
> 
> Can you give me some suggestions on how to solve this issue? I need to
> use remote-viewer through the firefox plugin, since I must connect to
> Ovirt-managed virtual machines, and I also need the usb-redirection.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> Best Regards
> R. Brunetti
> 
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