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> and RDP narrowly I don't suppose[1] it supports RDP 8's new ability to play video on a remote desktop by streaming the media across and decoding it locally (
by tekacs 12y ago
> and RDP narrowly
I don't suppose[1] it supports RDP 8's new ability to play video on a remote desktop by streaming the media across and decoding it locally (works in the Win/Mac official clients).
I was amazed and dumbfounded the first time a YouTube video played in a remote session with perfectly in-sync audio and video and instant response to mouse clicks and now find it hard to go back...
[1]: Can't test this myself until I get back to a desktop computer (this is from a phone).
- mdmarra 12y agoRDP8 also supports RDP over UDP which further enhances performance in high-latency scenarios. I'm assuming that is also not factored into that claim either
- luma 12y agoI kept waiting for the demo video to show any streaming video which they kept avoiding. VNC is ancient by industry standards. While this is convenient and the open license is helpful, there are far more mature remote desktop protocol stacks available commercially. PCoIP, RDP8, ICA/HDX, heck even HP's RGS cam handle streaming video and USB remoting.
- krakensden 12y agoIn early 2013, guacamole would do video for a little bit, and then get desynchronized from the server. It would be pretty great while it lasted though...
- warfangle 12y agoWebRTC tries UDP before falling back to HTTP/S. I'm betting guac will be even faster when they move to that from websockets. I haven't seen any solid implementations of client<->server communication with webrtc compared to websocket, though - but I haven't looked very hard.
- jitl 12y agoWhile guacamole doesn't support video encoding and streaming itself, it's still fast enough to watch 480p-sized videos on LAN at 30fps, along with forwarded sound. Tested streaming from a Windows 8 desktop to a Core 2 Linux laptop running Chrome.