On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 22:36, Marc-André Moreau <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't know about IGEL > Do you know if their thin clients will offer RemoteFX support using > specialized hardware for the decoding of the codec used by RemoteFX? > The new version of mstsc.exe that came out with Windows 7 SP1 is supposed to > offer software support for RemoteFX, without hardware acceleration. The > problem is that implementing the codec in software is non-trivial, and also > quite slow compared to hardware acceleration. I haven't looked at the codec > specification myself, but if there was a way to accelerate RemoteFX decoding > using general purpose GPU acceleration such as OpenCL, that would be nice. > That just gave me the idea of trying to figure out how the new version of > mstsc.exe actually implements software decoding of RemoteFX. Maybe it > delegates part of it to the GPU, just like modern implementations of GDI do.
We need to figure it right but in theory we could use local GPU for this. It surely wouldn't be as fast as native decoding, using specific hardware, but would be nice. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
