Xpra: Ticket #510: video stream pass-through

Similar to #509 and related to #410: we could register a dummy libva video decoder and most video players/browsers would talk to it instead of the X11 server, we can then grab the raw h264 or vp8 stream from it, saving us the cost of decoding it on the server then re-encoding it ourselves!

Potential problems:



Mon, 13 Jul 2015 05:26:23 GMT - rektide: cc set


Mon, 23 Jan 2017 07:44:57 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

#56 will have to come first.


Tue, 19 Sep 2017 08:20:42 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

No progress on #56, re-scheduling.


Wed, 28 Mar 2018 05:10:05 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

Probably easier to just implement a wayland backend (#387) which will give us a surface for video.


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:57:50 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/510