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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC encoding ZLibHex?
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To: Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 05/18/2010 08:47 AM, Peter Lieven wrote:
> 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?

Looks like a matter of a few days to make it into git.  That will be in 
time for the 0.13 release which will probably be July 1st.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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