Hi David, if you are using Windows 7 or lower on the VCL and/or client side: we haven't gotten around to give it a try (our VCL Windows images are pretty much of the Windows 7 age cohort), but RDP 8 - introduced with Windows 8 and Server 2012 - supposedly performs much, much better w.r.t. video streaming, audio streaming, multimedia and the like. Also, it seems like the necessary components can be installed on Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (what a name...), too: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2592687 . I recall seeing an impressive video on MSDN (?) comparing RDP 7 and the "RemoteFX" functionality in RDP 8 - the test case was exactly watching a YouTube video. (Sorry, I can't find that video right now; there are many less authoritative "sources" on YouTube.)
May be worth to give it a try. Also, there may be others on the list who have already deployed Windows 8 and can give advice regarding multimedia experience. Best regards Imre --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Imre Kocsis assistant lecturer Fault Tolerant Systems Research Group Department of Measurement and Information Systems Budapest University of Technology and Economics mail: [email protected] phone: +36-1-463-2006 mobile: +36-20-514-6881 skype: kocsis_imre From: Aaron Coburn <[email protected]> To: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Date: 2013.12.17 17:22 Subject: Re: choppy sound Hi, David, Some folks may disagree here, but we don’t generally recommend using the VCL for any video- or audio-intensive applications. For viewing videos, a local browser works much better than doing the same thing through the VCL. If the video needs to be played in a particular application, we typically don’t make those applications available through the VCL. As far as audio goes, it can be OK with a suitably low bit-rate, but that, too, is usually best done outside the context of a RDP session. Audio also gets complicated in that not all RDP clients support it in the first place. Aaron -- Aaron Coburn System Administrator / Programmer Web Services, Amherst College On Dec 17, 2013, at 11:06 AM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, I have been experimenting with sound through remote desktop and it seems to come in choppy. This will be an issue for our language labs, has anyone experienced the same issues wen remoting into a virtual node via RDP. I've tested by watching you tube videos which is pretty much not possible as the video and sound are just really slow and choppy. Any advice is appreciated on how others have overcome this within their VCL labs. Thank You. David DeMizio Academic Systems Coordinator Office of Information Technology New College of Florida Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 www.ncf.edu [attachment "signature.asc" deleted by Imre Kocsis/ftsrg]
