Re: [SerialICE] r80 - trunk/qemu-0.11.0

[Alexander Graf]

On 03.12.2009, at 18:42, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> On 12/3/09 5:49 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > > I made the graphics 320x200, so it's around 230KiB raw image data.
> > >
> > > Options:
> > > use a compressed format.. This would mean adding a (i.e. JPG)
> > >
> > > decompressor to Qemu..
> > >   Either by requiring to link against libjpeg, or by adding a jpg
> > > decompressor in an extra file.
> > > load the PPM file from the filesystem instead of including it in the
> > >
> > > source. Doesn't make it
> > >  smaller but then it's not possible to make a single diff against the
> > > Qemu source tree anymore.
> > > paint something funky with a nice and small algorithm. Suggestions?
> >
> > Good old zlib should give you pretty good compression ratios.
>
> Unfortunately, for the current picture it goes down from 230KiB to
> 180KiB, almost not worth the effort. The same image as jpg is 29KiB.

Oh? Do you have many color fadings?

Got a link to the image?

Alex