[Spice-devel] spice-gtk and flash video performance

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently using remote-viewer to access guests via spice. Flash video
> playback is "decent" for windows guests but on my fedora guest (f22 xfce
> spin x86_64) is quite poor as in the screen not refreshing fast enough.
> 
> I have checked a number of things like network bit rate between the host
> (f22) and the client (f22) runnning remote-viewer (~1Gbps), qxl drv
> installed in the guest, ram settings for the qxl device (64MB) etc ...
> 
> The only things I haven't tried is running a newer versions of spice-gtk(3).
> Currently, the client running remote-viewer have the following installed:
> 
> spice-gtk3-0.27-6.fc21.x86_64
> spice-glib-0.27-6.fc21.x86_64
> spice-gtk-python-0.27-6.fc21.x86_64
> spice-gtk-0.27-6.fc21.x86_64
> spice-gtk-tools-0.27-6.fc21.x86_64
> 
> I was wondering if trying newer versions of spice-gtk is worth attempting and
> if rpms for these are being built somewhere.

Not really, however you can try with an update mesa in guest side, that can
significantly improve video detection with Spice when using a compositor,
and a nice boost for other large drawing operations:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2015-June/086459.html