You've reached pretty ideal conditions for video streaming performance: not bad bandwidth, Windows VM with standalone player (where qxl manages to capture stream of original size) and you've got pretty good client in terms of CPU. If you do the same with linux guest, HTML5 video, low b/w network, and underpowered thin client, the results will be way different. This is what Yonit's series of patches will address. David bruce bushby píše v Pá 08. 03. 2013 v 00:11 +0000: > > > not sure how many people have actually tried this....but I ran a > little test the other day. > > > Laptop (fedora 18) > Server (fedora 18) ...running a windows7 guest. > > > *All qemu, libvirt and spice packages were Fedora defaults....as in > what you find in the standard repo. > > > > > I took my laptop to my brothers house (5 miles away) and used "spicec" > to connect to my windows7 guest...."shift+F11" to full screen and > launched a 720p HD movie via VLC (running in the windows guest)...... > if you've not seen it before it'll take your breath away :))))) > ....it's not 100% perfect....but it's at least 98% perfect. > > > ...yes we both have virgin media broadband (UK) .... BUT ping response > times are in the 20ms > > > After that test, I've been working day and night designing a spice > thin client (hardware) because it's obvious that the way the > "majority" of people use a PC's is about to change. > > > Bruce > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Marian Krcmarik <mkrcmari@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:35:10 PM > > Subject: Re: Spice for commercial use > > > > On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 01:10 -0800, > > spice-devel-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 06:24:34 -0800 > > > From: Tom Holmes <tomholmes@xxxxxxxx> > > > To: <spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Subject: Spice for commercial use > > > Message-ID: <BLU170-W120A85A49F95B3126C2236EC5E40@xxxxxxx> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > > > > > > Hello! > > > Can Spice be used for commercial use, if so are there > licensing > > > fees > > > that are applied? Would you say Spice is comparable to > RDP, ICA > > > and > > > PCOIP? Can Spice be used to access a Windows Desktop? > > > Thank you so much!Tom > > > > > I have not used PCoIP but, from what I understand, SPICE > would be > > most > > similar to that. Fundamentally, all four are providing the > same > > primary > > functionality - remote desktops. In my experience, RDP and > ICA are a > > The goal is the same but concept how to achieve it is (afaik) > completely different. PCoIP is a UDP stream of rendered pixels > on host (with some support to offload image encoding to > special hardware cards) while Spice is a TCP stream of > graphics commands to be rendered on the client. > > little more responsive over a WAN/Internet connection right > now but > > do > > not handle multimedia as well as SPICE. I mean RDP6 and > above - RDP5 > > was terrible over a WAN. I believe, as video becomes more > important > > and > > as SPICE improves its video capability, perhaps with an > inter-frame > > compression algorithm instead of MJPEG, it will become our > remote > > desktop protocol of choice :) - John > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Spice-devel mailing list > > Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel -- David Jaša, RHCE SPICE QE based in Brno GPG Key: 22C33E24 Fingerprint: 513A 060B D1B4 2A72 7F0D 0278 B125 CD00 22C3 3E24 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel