[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk v5 4/9] channel-display: implement preferred video codec msgc

[Pavel Grunt]

Hi Victor,

On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 09:18 +0100, Victor Toso wrote:
> From: Victor Toso <me at victortoso.com>
> 
> * SPICE_MSGC_DISPLAY_PREFERRED_VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE
> 
> This message was introduced in protocol 0.12.13 to establish client
> side preference on video codec to be used in streams.
> 
> At this moment, we only introduce a new API [0] to select *the*
> preferred video codec for client; In a later time, it should be
> possible to use this message upon connection in order to to give
> higher priority for video codecs with better performance and with
> hardware decoding capabilities.
> 
> [0] spice_display_change_preferred_video_codec_type()

Why not support more than one codec in the api? It could accept a
string which would be translated to the message. iow the message
allows to handle more than one codec, the api should do the same.

Pavel
> 
> Note that host preference for encoding is expected to be considered
> first then the client's preference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure.ac                         |  2 +-
>  doc/reference/spice-gtk-sections.txt |  1 +
>  src/channel-display.c                | 37
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/channel-display.h                |  1 +
>  src/map-file                         |  1 +
>  src/spice-glib-sym-file              |  1 +
>  6 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index f3e7f8d..aa60e91 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ AC_CHECK_LIBM
>  AC_SUBST(LIBM)
>  
>  AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([spice-common])
> -PKG_CHECK_MODULES([SPICE_PROTOCOL], [spice-protocol >= 0.12.12])
> +PKG_CHECK_MODULES([SPICE_PROTOCOL], [spice-protocol >= 0.12.13])
>  
>  COMMON_CFLAGS='-I${top_builddir}/spice-common/
> -I${top_srcdir}/spice-common/ ${SPICE_PROTOCOL_CFLAGS}'
>  AC_SUBST(COMMON_CFLAGS)
> diff --git a/doc/reference/spice-gtk-sections.txt
> b/doc/reference/spice-gtk-sections.txt
> index 386e737..4e090f6 100644
> --- a/doc/reference/spice-gtk-sections.txt
> +++ b/doc/reference/spice-gtk-sections.txt
> @@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ spice_display_get_gl_scanout
>  spice_display_gl_draw_done
>  spice_display_get_primary
>  spice_display_change_preferred_compression
> +spice_display_change_preferred_video_codec_type
>  spice_gl_scanout_free
>  <SUBSECTION Standard>
>  SPICE_DISPLAY_CHANNEL
> diff --git a/src/channel-display.c b/src/channel-display.c
> index ca56cd1..1d71fd3 100644
> --- a/src/channel-display.c
> +++ b/src/channel-display.c
> @@ -525,6 +525,43 @@ void
> spice_display_change_preferred_compression(SpiceChannel *channel,
> gint comp
>  }
>  
>  /**
> + * spice_display_change_preferred_video_codec:
> + * @channel: a #SpiceDisplayChannel
> + * @compression: a #SpiceVideoCodecType
> + *
> + * Tells the spice server to change the preferred video codec type
> for
> + * streaming in @channel. Application can set only one preferred
> video codec.
> + *
> + * Since: 0.34
> + */
> +void spice_display_change_preferred_video_codec_type(SpiceChannel
> *channel, gint codec_type)
> +{
> +    SpiceMsgOut *out;
> +    SpiceMsgcDisplayPreferredVideoCodecType *msg;
> +
> +    g_return_if_fail(SPICE_IS_DISPLAY_CHANNEL(channel));
> +    g_return_if_fail(codec_type >= SPICE_VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE_MJPEG);
> +    g_return_if_fail(codec_type < SPICE_VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE_ENUM_END);
> +
> +    if (!spice_channel_test_capability(channel,
> SPICE_DISPLAY_CAP_PREF_VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE)) {
> +        CHANNEL_DEBUG(channel, "does not have capability to change
> the preferred video codec type");
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    CHANNEL_DEBUG(channel, "changing preferred video codec type to
> %d", codec_type);
> +
> +    msg = g_malloc0(sizeof(SpiceMsgcDisplayPreferredVideoCodecType)
> +
> +                    (sizeof(SpiceVideoCodecType) * 1));
> +    msg->num_of_codecs = 1;
> +    msg->codecs[0] = codec_type;
> +
> +    out = spice_msg_out_new(channel,
> SPICE_MSGC_DISPLAY_PREFERRED_VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE);
> +    out->marshallers->msgc_display_preferred_video_codec_type(out-
> >marshaller, msg);
> +    spice_msg_out_send_internal(out);
> +    g_free(msg);
> +}
> +
> +/**
>   * spice_display_get_gl_scanout:
>   * @channel: a #SpiceDisplayChannel
>   *
> diff --git a/src/channel-display.h b/src/channel-display.h
> index ad82a16..fccf228 100644
> --- a/src/channel-display.h
> +++ b/src/channel-display.h
> @@ -149,6 +149,7 @@
> gboolean        spice_display_get_primary(SpiceChannel *channel,
> guint32 surface
>                                            SpiceDisplayPrimary
> *primary);
>  
>  void spice_display_change_preferred_compression(SpiceChannel
> *channel, gint compression);
> +void spice_display_change_preferred_video_codec_type(SpiceChannel
> *channel, gint codec_type);
>  
>  GType           spice_gl_scanout_get_type     (void) G_GNUC_CONST;
>  void            spice_gl_scanout_free         (SpiceGlScanout
> *scanout);
> diff --git a/src/map-file b/src/map-file
> index 3d92153..31cafc2 100644
> --- a/src/map-file
> +++ b/src/map-file
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ spice_channel_type_to_string;
>  spice_client_error_quark;
>  spice_cursor_channel_get_type;
>  spice_display_change_preferred_compression;
> +spice_display_change_preferred_video_codec_type;
>  spice_display_channel_get_type;
>  spice_display_get_gl_scanout;
>  spice_display_get_grab_keys;
> diff --git a/src/spice-glib-sym-file b/src/spice-glib-sym-file
> index 473c5ca..d73f799 100644
> --- a/src/spice-glib-sym-file
> +++ b/src/spice-glib-sym-file
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ spice_channel_type_to_string
>  spice_client_error_quark
>  spice_cursor_channel_get_type
>  spice_display_change_preferred_compression
> +spice_display_change_preferred_video_codec_type
>  spice_display_channel_get_type
>  spice_display_get_gl_scanout
>  spice_display_get_primary