[Spice-devel] [Qemu-devel] Question and probable bug in qemu spice's parameters

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 09/01/2015 12:23, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto:
> On Fr, 2015-01-09 at 11:30 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>> In qemu docs seems that spice streaming video is default to "filter" but
>> after this patch seems default to "off" without updating qemu-options.hx
>> file:
>> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=f1d3e586f069e17f83b669842bc02d60d509daca
>> What is the correct default actually?
> It should be filter, but the filter heuristics actually has trouble
> distinguishing real videos from gnome desktop, resulting in bad display
> quality.  Switching to "off" was meant to be a temporary stopgap for
> that.
>
> Anyone can comment what is the state here?  Became the heuristic better
> meanwhile, so we can flip it back to filter?  Otherwise we should
> probably fixup the docs to match reality ...
>
>> If I specify spice image compression, qemu doesn't start and gives me
>> this error:
>> spice: invalid stream video control: (null)
> Hmm, can't reproduce.
> What is the exact command line leading to this error?

Sorry, I saw only now that this is caused by my mistake in one libxl 
patch to implement it.

>
> cheers,
>    Gerd
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