As defined by:
https://github.com/rfbproto/rfbproto/blob/master/rfbproto.rst#open-h-264-encoding
The noVNC HTML application recently added support for this encoding. There is
also an open pull request to add audio support to noVNC:
https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/pull/1952
With that in place, the web based VNC console is good enough to display
a VM showing a video with reasonable bandwidth.
Possible improvements:
- Dynamic switching to/from H264 mode at high change rates
- Support for hardware encoders
We may also extend the RFB Audio protocol with "opus" encoding, because uncompressed
audio need too much bandwidth.
Changes in v2:
- cleanup: h264: remove wrong libavcodec_ prefix from function names
- search for available h264 encoder, and only enable h264 if a
encoder is available
- new vnc option to configure h264 at server side
Dietmar Maurer (6):
new configure option to enable gstreamer
add vnc h264 encoder
vnc: h264: send additional frames after the display is clean
h264: remove wrong libavcodec_ prefix from function names
h264: search for available h264 encoder
h264: new vnc option to configure h264 at server side
meson.build | 10 +
meson_options.txt | 2 +
scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh | 5 +-
ui/meson.build | 1 +
ui/vnc-enc-h264.c | 335 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ui/vnc-jobs.c | 49 +++--
ui/vnc.c | 62 ++++++-
ui/vnc.h | 29 +++
8 files changed, 476 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 ui/vnc-enc-h264.c
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