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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:47:31 +0200
From: Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC encoding ZLibHex?
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/18/2010 05:15 AM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> has someone enough background to say if it was worth implementing 
>> ZLibHex encoding
>> to qemu/kvm?
>
> The way I look at it, hextile is capable of a 16x16 tile that can be 
> raw, filled, or can contain colored subrects.
>
> Tight allows arbitrary tile size, can be raw, filled, or paletted.  
> Paletted is going to be a pretty close approximation to colored 
> subrects (probably superior).  Since Tight is compressed, the result 
> should be that Tight always does better than compressed hextile.
>
> Not to mention the fact that ZLibHex is not supported very well across 
> clients.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
i was not aware that tight encoding is currently being integrated into 
qemu. i saw it on the agenda for google summer of code and wanted
to have some intermediate solution. when do you think the tight patches 
will make it into the release branch?

regards,
peter
>
>> If yes, I would go for that.
>>
>> BR,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>
>


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