From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jyod3-0000bl-47 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 09:45:17 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jyocu-0000RY-2o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 09:45:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36074 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jyoct-0000Qn-Bg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 09:45:07 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:58170) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jyocr-0005JR-J1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2008 09:45:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:45:04 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Sensible VNC encodings Message-ID: <20080521134504.GB15210@shareable.org> References: <4833845C.9000603@codemonkey.ws> <48341E3D.70102@codemonkey.ws> <48342542.4070205@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48342542.4070205@codemonkey.ws> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Anthony Liguori wrote: > I really don't like the idea of using a lossy encoding though. Lossy encoding sounds very useful if you're on a very slow link and it would take 30s to display a major update even with the most brilliant of lossless compressions. Having a blurry, progressively updated image until it's exact would sometimes be useful. -- Jamie