--- README | 19 +++++-------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index d07c014..7e9a3c7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ Introduction ============ The SPICE Streaming Agent is a guest-side daemon which captures the -guest X.Org output, encodes it to H.264 using hardware encoding (NVIDIA-only at -the moment), and forwards the resulting stream to the host to be sent through -SPICE. +guest video output, encodes it to a video stream,and forwards the resulting +stream to the host to be sent through SPICE. The capture and encoding are done +through the use of plugins, so a variety of video format and capture/encoding +methods (hardware/software) can be used. For now, spice-streaming-agent only +provides software encoding to MJPEG. Virtual Machine Configuration @@ -39,14 +41,3 @@ Using QEMU [source,sh] -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=com.redhat.stream.0 -chardev spiceport,name=com.redhat.stream.0,id=charchannel1 - - -NVIDIA-specific Configuration -============================= - -In order to use NVIDIA hardware-accelerated encoding, you will need to -configure the virtual machine to use mdev/vfio. An NVIDIA card has to be listed -in lspci output on the guest. - -The guest also needs to have the NVIDIA proprietary drivers installed and in -use. -- 2.13.6 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel