[winswitch] NVENC and xpra

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Over the network (ssh), glxspheres was very aliased (as in missing frames
made it look like the spheres were moving erratically).

> What encoding are you using?

z = 1 and RGB seems to work the best.  Obviously producing 1,000 fps would
produce such aliasing.  glxspheresd was a bad test.  With the wine game,
still only 8 fps maybe with the best options I found and awkward mouse.
 I'll experiment with a better client and see how that fares.


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:

>  On 13/12/13 06:10, ... wrote:
>
>   Over the network (ssh), glxspheres was very aliased (as in missing
> frames made it look like the spheres were moving erratically).
>
> What encoding are you using?
>
>   Warcraft III running through wine over the network ran in fullscreen on
> the client, though fonts were too small, but you are right, the mouse is
> super laggy.  Also, the graphics were laggy I'm sure due to network latency
> and the client being too slow at video decompression.  The client is an old
> Pentium 4.
>
> Decoding side we don't use any acceleration yet, that's a low priority as
> most CPUs can decode h264 cheaply enough. A Pentium 4 however...
>
>   Looks like tuning network usage and compression requirements is the
> next thing to look at.
>
> All of this should be self tuning and you are unlikely to find a magic
> bullet here.
>
> If you are on a LAN, consider using "RGB" encoding and latest trunk:
> http://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Encodings#ChoosinganEncoding
> You can find some more background on the wiki:
> http://xpra.org/trac/wiki/WindowRefresh
>
> Cheers
> Antoine
>