Re: [Spice-devel] video passthrough ideas

2011-05-12 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > My concern for VAAPI though (and other acceleration API) is that it is not a > sink, which handle completely decoding and displaying. I understand it can > take care of some expensive operations, but the result probably has to be > ret

Re: [Spice-devel] video passthrough ideas

2011-05-12 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi > > - Original Message - >> b. GStreamer currently do no have working VAAPI plugins and AFAIK, >> it won't have any for at least a few months more. > > What do you mean? It seems they exist according to the wiki: > http://www.

Re: [Spice-devel] video passthrough ideas

2011-05-12 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi - Original Message - > b. GStreamer currently do no have working VAAPI plugins and AFAIK, > it won't have any for at least a few months more. What do you mean? It seems they exist according to the wiki: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi (http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~

Re: [Spice-devel] video passthrough ideas

2011-05-12 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi Zeeshan, (quick reply) - Original Message - > Hi everyone, > 1. VAAPI (Video Acceleration API): The idea here is to implement a > custom VAAPI driver for the guest that redirects all decoding/playback > calls to the client through a spice channel. On the client side, we > create a chan

[Spice-devel] video passthrough ideas

2011-05-12 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi everyone, As some of you already know, I've been looking into the needed "video passthrough" feature: i-e sending the encoded stream to client and decode it on client-side. Although I'm still investigating on how to best handle this, I thought I already share my thoughts/findings so far so if