[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-common v5 1/9] protocol: add preferred video codec message

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> From: Victor Toso <me at victortoso.com>
> 
> Client might want to choose a preferred video codec for streaming for
> different reasons which having hardware decoder support being the most
> interest one.
> 
> This message allows the client to send an array of video codecs in
> order of preference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com>
> ---
>  common/messages.h | 5 +++++
>  spice.proto       | 5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/common/messages.h b/common/messages.h
> index 516a345..5316cc0 100644
> --- a/common/messages.h
> +++ b/common/messages.h
> @@ -644,6 +644,11 @@ typedef struct SpiceMsgcPortEvent {
>      uint8_t event;
>  } SpiceMsgcPortEvent;
>  
> +typedef struct SpiceMsgcDisplayPreferredVideoCodecType {
> +    uint32_t num_of_codecs;
> +    uint8_t codecs[0];
> +} SpiceMsgcDisplayPreferredVideoCodecType;
> +
>  typedef struct SpiceMsgcDisplayPreferredCompression {
>      uint8_t image_compression;
>  } SpiceMsgcDisplayPreferredCompression;
> diff --git a/spice.proto b/spice.proto
> index 0bfc515..758f9bb 100644
> --- a/spice.proto
> +++ b/spice.proto
> @@ -985,6 +985,11 @@ channel DisplayChannel : BaseChannel {
>  
>      message {
>      } gl_draw_done;
> +
> +    message {
> +        uint32 num_of_codecs;

I remember we discussed about uint8 instead

> +        video_codec_type codecs[num_of_codecs] @end;
> +    } preferred_video_codec_type;
>  };
>  
>  flags16 keyboard_modifier_flags {

Frediano