[Spice-devel] Status of spice-html5 and video streaming

[Francois Gouget]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, Jeremy White wrote:
[...]
> I haven't had a chance to work this in with the vp8 code, which I had
> hoped would provide a dramatic improvement.  Unfortunately, the sized
> stream message really creates havoc with vp8 streams, and you really
> can't play a video without the sized stream messages.  See:
>   http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-May/019948.html

One way to test things without running into the sized stream issues is 
to use mplayer. It has no GUI so no progress bar or other menus to 
confuse Spice:

   DISPLAY=:3.0 mplayer big_buck_bunny_480p_h264.mov


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Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>