[Spice-devel] question: how to test the gstreamer:h264 with qemu ?

[Francois Gouget]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Li, ZhijianX wrote:

> Hello  guys,
> 
> Recently, I found that spice have supported gstremer:h264 encoding, so I want to have a try.
> But I'm not sure how to test this feature(I am a spice newbie)

There's not yet any support for specifying the preferred video codec in 
either qemu or libvirt. Hence Christophe's suggestion to directly hack 
the default codec in the Spice server source code.


> If I play a h264 encoding video in the guest, how can I *confirm* that 
> the gstremer:h264 works or not ?

Note that no matter what the video format is, it will be decoded by your 
media player in the guest, then reencoded, possibly with a different 
video codec, by the spice server, and finally decoded by the Spice 
client. So the codec of the original video file is quite irrelevant.

-- 
Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>