[Spice-devel] [PATCH v9 00/24] Add GStreamer support for video streaming

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > ... and the server picks one codec which is supported by both client and
> > gstreamer, with the codec priorities being configurable, is that
> > correct?  So things keep working if gstreamer happens to have no h264
> > support (due to the patent mess) on either side?
> 
> Yes.

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Thanks, looks good all to me.

> maybe go so far as to disable mjpeg support (and he would make sure to 
> get hardware encoding support).

Maybe it makes sense to have some way configure "vp8, but only in case
we have hardware encoding support for that" (for future improvement,
this is not a request to hold up this series), i.e. something like
SpiceVideoCodecs=gstreamer:vp8-gpu;spice:mjpeg

cheers,
  Gerd