Re: [Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-28 Thread Liang Guo
Hi, ALL On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> There isn't going to be a Debian release with spice in it for around >> 2 years now in the best case, so if there isn't another suitable choice >> available by then, then something worse than this has gone badly wrong. > > Two year

Re: [Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-17 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, If you don't want package celt 0.5.1 -- fine. You can patch your spice server and client to just not signal the celt capability, and they will interoperate just fine with everybody else using raw uncompressed audio. But IMHO it would be stupid to not support audio compression in your spi

Re: [Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-17 Thread Ron
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:48:36PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 11/17/10 13:04, Ron wrote: > >Are you seriously telling me that you have no plan whatsoever for how > >to transition from a random snapshot of an experimental codec, > > We can transition just fine. server + client can signal sup

Re: [Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-17 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi 2010/11/17 Ron : > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:48:36PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> On 11/17/10 13:04, Ron wrote: > Why not just let systems negotiate the best codec they both know? That was a bit my goal with this patch: http://gitorious.org/~elmarco/spice/elmarco-spice/commit/e310493a3e5a28

Re: [Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-17 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 11/17/10 13:04, Ron wrote: Hi Hans, Hans de Goede writes: The if at all part depends on if it will be doable without too much pain to support both celt-0.5.1 and celt "1.0" in the same binary. Should work without major trouble, the symbols exported by the shared library have a versioned

Re: [Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-17 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 11/17/2010 01:04 PM, Ron wrote: Hi Hans, Hans de Goede writes: The if at all part depends on if it will be doable without too much pain to support both celt-0.5.1 and celt "1.0" in the same binary. This is important to us as we care a lot about protocol compatibility. Are you serious

Re: [Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-17 Thread Ron
Hi Hans, Hans de Goede writes: > The if at all part depends on if it will be doable without too much > pain to support both celt-0.5.1 and celt "1.0" in the same binary. > This is important to us as we care a lot about protocol > compatibility. Are you seriously telling me that you have no plan

Re: [Spice-devel] Bug#603699: ITP: celt051 -- The CELT codec v0.5.1

2010-11-17 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, The reason spice is still using celt-0.5.1 is that celt as a protocol / format is considered not finished yet by celt upstream and thus the bitstream format may change (and does change) with every new upstream release. In order to provide compatibility between different spice client and serv