[Spice-devel] [spice v13 05/29] server: Let the administrator pick the video encoder and codec

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 09:48:56AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> The Spice server administrator can specify the encoder and codec
> preferences to optimize for CPU or bandwidth usage. Preferences are
> described in a semi-colon separated list of encoder:codec pairs.
> The server has a default preference list which can explicitly be
> selected by specifying 'auto'.
> 
> The server then picks a codec supported by the client based on the
> following new client capabilities:
>  * SPICE_DISPLAY_CAP_MULTI_CODEC which denotes a recent client that
>    supports multiple codecs. This capability is needed to not have to
>    hardcode that MJPEG is supported. This makes it possible to write
>    clients that don't support MJPEG.
>  * SPICE_DISPLAY_CAP_CODEC_XXX, where XXX is a supported codec. Note
>    that for now the server only supports the MJPEG codec.

I would move (or copy) this last paragraph to the previous commit
(server: Check the client video codec capabilities).

Acked-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>

Christophe
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