Thanks Imre, Our image is Windows 7 32bit SP1 with KB2592687. I'm connecting from my machine which is Windows 7 64 Bit, also with KB2592687. Thanks , I'll have a look and see if I can find that video.
David DeMizio *Academic Systems Coordinator* Office of Information Technology New College of Florida Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 www.ncf.edu On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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*<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]*<[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* <http://www.ncf.edu/> > [attachment "signature.asc" deleted by Imre Kocsis/ftsrg] >
