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>
I think it may encourage people to implement more features for the viewer,
because a GTK GUI seems to be easier to implement than a SDL one
(and it is more integrated with the major Linux Desktops out there).
Signed-off-by: Christian Beier <dontmind@freeshell.org>
David Verbeiren
Mateus Cesar Groess