[Spice-devel] [spice-gtk v7 1/3] streaming: Report invalid streams to the server

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, Christophe Fergeau wrote:

> From: Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>
> 
> The error is sent using the existing client stream report message where
> the dropped frame count is maxed out while the received frame count is
> zero. Servers that recognize it can then switch to sending regular
> screen updates for that area so the client is not stuck with a frozen
> area on the screen.
> 
> This can be useful in case the client is unable to decode the stream for
> some reason like a bug in the GStreamer plugins, the decoder not liking
> odd video dimensions, etc.
> 
> This can also happen when the client receives a message that the
> server sent before it received the client's stream_report 'closing' a
> stream.
> 
> Also the client has to validate (and was validating) the server data
> anyway so this is just about reporting errors rather than silently
> ignoring them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>
> Acked-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>
> ---

Works or me. Same for the other patches in the series.


-- 
Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>