Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] qemu-gui based on wxWidgets and libvncclient

[Fabrice Bellard]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> >
> > > Another point is that you should consider adding audio support. I can 
> > > help you on that (maybe malc would be interested too !). A simple 
> > > format could be 4 bit ADPCM at fixed frequency. Optionally A more 
> > > advanced codec such as Vorbis could be used.
> >
> >
> > Please, please not _another_ vnc hack! The RFB protocol loses all of 
> > its appeal if everybody has proprietary, incompatible extensions! If 
> > you bother to search Google for prior art, here is a link:
> >
> > http://www.ks.uni-freiburg.de/php_arbeitdet.php?id=75
> >
> > Yes, it is in German, but it already works. No need to add yet another 
> > obscure extension.
>
>
> My German is not very good, but from what I was able to read, it seems 
> like they are just using VNC to transmit the port information for doing 
> esd forwarding.  Presumably this saved a lot of work because no server 
> side code was needed.

I would prefer a self contained solution using the same TCP connection 
as the rest of the protocol.

Regards,

Fabrice.