Features/CodecPassthrough

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Video pass-through

Summary

Spice currently detects and encodes video in MJPEG format. It also encodes audio with the celt codec, while the guest OS has to handle decoding of original video stream.

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Current Status

  • Targeted Release: none
  • 0% complete

Description

That feature idea is to propose sending the encoded stream directly to the client, to avoid when possible the expensive decoding and encoding on the guest side.

Testing

See also

https://gitorious.org/dxva-for-mplayer/pages/Home