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

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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.

I would prefer a self contained solution using the same TCP connection 
as the rest of the protocol.

Regards,

Fabrice.