This patch implements support in LibVNCClient for framebuffer updates
encoded as H.264 frames. Hardware accelerated decoding is performed
using VA API.
This is experimental support to let the community explore the possibilities
offered by the potential bandwidth and latency reductions that H.264 encoding
allows. This may be particularly useful for use cases such as online gaming,
hosted desktops, hosted set top boxes...
This patch only provides the client side support and is meant to be used
with corresponding server-side support, as provided by an upcoming patch for
qemu ui/vnc module (to view the display of a virtual machine executing under
QEMU).
With this H.264-based encoding, if multiple framebuffer update messages
are generated for a single server framebuffer modification, the H.264
frame data is sent only with the first update message. Subsequent update
framebuffer messages will contain only the coordinates and size of the
additional updated regions.
Instructions/Requirements:
* The patch should be applied on top of the previous patch I submitted with
minor enhancements to the gtkvncviewer application:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30323804
* Currently only works with libva 1.0: use branch "v1.0-branch" for libva and
intel-driver. Those can be built as follows:
cd libva
git checkout v1.0-branch
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
cd ..
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/vaapi/intel-driver
cd intel-driver
git checkout v1.0-branch
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
Signed-off-by: David Verbeiren <david.verbeiren@intel.com>
Besided making libvncserver reverseVNC IPv6-aware, this introduces some changes
on the client side as well to make clients listen on IPv6 sockets, too. Like
the server side, this also uses a separate-socket approach.
For security reasons, it can be important to limit which IP addresses a
LibVNCClient-based client should listen for reverse connections. This
commit adds that option.
To preserve binary backwards-compatibility, the field was added to the end
of the rfbclient struct, and the function ListenAtTcpPort retains its
signature (but calls the new ListenAtTcpPortAndAddress).
[jes: shortened the commit subject, added a longer explanation in the
commit body and adjusted style]
Signed-off-by: Luca Stauble <gnekoz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
For backwards-compatibility reasons, we can only add struct members to the
end. That way, existing callers still can use newer libraries, as the
structs are always allocated by the library (and therefore guaranteed to
have the correct size) and still rely on the same position of the parts
the callers know about.
Reported by Luca Falavigna.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Adds automagically generating libvncserver/libvncclient API
documentation using doxygen. This gives a nice overview on both APIs,
include dependencies and function call/caller dependencies.
TODO: Modify all the explaining comments in the .c files for use with
doxygen as well.
This patch only changes comments, no functional changes at all!
Signed-off-by: Christian Beier <dontmind@freeshell.org>
This implements the xvp VNC extension, which is described in the
community version of the RFB protocol:
http://tigervnc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/rfbproto
It is also mentioned in the official RFB protocol.
This enables setting the DSCP/Traffic Class field of IP/IPv6 packets
sent by a client. For example starting a client with -qosdscp 184
marks all outgoing traffic for expedited forwarding.
Implementation for Win32 is still a TODO, though. See
http://betelco.blogspot.com/2009/03/dscp-marking-under-windows-at.html
for an overview of the Win32 QoS API mess...
[jes: pulled the "host" declarations into the conditionally compiled
blocks where that variable is used. Also fixed non-IPv6 connections.]
Signed-off-by: Vic Lee <llyzs@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
[jes: adjusted coding style, made sure port is initialized correctly]
Signed-off-by: Vic Lee <llyzs@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The return value now better reflects what has happened:
1 on success (incoming connection on listen socket, we
accepted it successfully), -1 on error, 0 on timeout.
Also change the select calls to not check _all_ possible
file descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Christian Beier <dontmind@freeshell.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Forking the whole process from deep within a library call does
not really work at all with apps that use multiple threads, i.e. every
reasonably modern GUI app. So, provide a non-forking listen function so
that the caller can decide if to fork, start a thread, etc.
This implementation adds a timeout parameter to be able to call the
listen function multiple times so that it's possible to do sth. else
in between, e.g. abort listening.
Signed-off-by: Christian Beier <dontmind@freeshell.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When working on a program which searches the display for some image, one
does not want to search again without getting an FB update. Add a
callback to make this possible.
The JPEG library is not necessarily installed everywhere, and sometimes
it is outright undesirable to compile with JPEG support, e.g. when the
server is not very fast. So fix the compilation for that case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
gbdj
Christian Beier
Daniel Cohen Gindi
Christian Beier
David Verbeiren
Luca Stauble
Peter Watkins
Johannes Schindelin
Vic Lee
Alexander Dorokhine
Ben Klopfenstein
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