[Spice-devel] Is the data after USB camera redirection compressed?

[Uri Lublin]

On 1/27/21 4:22 AM, lx wrote:
> Hi all:
>         If I redirect USB camera to virtual machine, I think we send
> original URB to virtual machine by USB channel.
> Is this understanding correct? If we want to improve the user experience,
> we need to compress URB data?

Hi,

If you build with lz4 enabled (both client and server),
then it should use lz4 to compress the data.

There is no functionality to create
a video stream out of raw data.

Can the USB camera be configured to send a compress stream?

Uri.