22 Feb
2012
22 Feb
'12
4:44 a.m.
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 04:33:12 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
On 02/21/2012 02:49 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Is there any reason not to use libjpeg-turbo instead of libjpeg when
>> building tde? Why not benefit from the acceleration?
>>
>> --
>> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>
> I would recommend using it actually. It makes quite a difference in the
> VNC applications; I can watch OTA HD TV at several FPS over VNC with it (I
> know, not really watchable, but still impressive given the overall
> inefficiency of the VNC protocol).
>
> The only reason I haven't compiled into Ubuntu< Oneiric is that it is
> only available as a package in Oneiric and up.
As long as it doesn't introduce any issues, and as long as it can coexist with normal
libjpeg, why not compile a version for TDE just for the distros/versions that don't
already have it?
--
Kris Gamrat
Ark Linux webmaster
http://www.arklinux.org/