[Spice-devel] [spice v8 05/24] server: Let the administrator pick the video encoder and codec

[Uri Lublin]

On 01/12/2016 12:58 PM, Francois Gouget wrote:
> The Spice server administrator can specify the preferred 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/server/spice-server.syms b/server/spice-server.syms
> index d65e14d..b8f06a2 100644
> --- a/server/spice-server.syms
> +++ b/server/spice-server.syms
> @@ -162,3 +162,8 @@ global:
>       spice_replay_next_cmd;
>       spice_replay_free_cmd;
>   } SPICE_SERVER_0.12.5;
> +
> +SPICE_SERVER_0.12.7 {
> +global:
> +    spice_server_set_video_codecs;
> +} SPICE_SERVER_0.12.6;

Hi,

This part fails to apply as there it is already defined with
spice_server_set_keepalive_timeout

Regards,
     Uri.