[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] qemu-gui based on wxWidgets and libvncclient

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@cs.utexas.edu>]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> 
>> Another point is that you should consider adding audio support. I can 
>> help you on that (maybe malc would be interested too !). A simple format 
>> could be 4 bit ADPCM at fixed frequency. Optionally A more advanced 
>> codec such as Vorbis could be used.
> 
> Please, please not _another_ vnc hack! The RFB protocol loses all of its 
> appeal if everybody has proprietary, incompatible extensions! If you 
> bother to search Google for prior art, here is a link:
> 
> http://www.ks.uni-freiburg.de/php_arbeitdet.php?id=75
> 
> Yes, it is in German, but it already works. No need to add yet another 
> obscure extension.

My German is not very good, but from what I was able to read, it seems 
like they are just using VNC to transmit the port information for doing 
esd forwarding.  Presumably this saved a lot of work because no server 
side code was needed.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ciao,
> Dscho