Hi Jonathan, > On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 11:48 +0000, Gustavo Homem wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > XRDP has been working extremely well for us, except for video > > playback > > where it still consumes a lot of bandwidth. > > > > What would be the route to have smooth video? > > Use a 1Gbps ethernet connection, works for me :-)
Can you share which terminal model you are using? > > > > > Would it involve a special output device for Linux media players > > (mplayer, kaffeine, etc) plus Multimedia Redirection on the > > server? > > > > Seems that the freedrp client already supports that: > > > > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff817595%28WS.10%29.aspx > > > > Basically yes. The other potential option is to extend the x11rdp > server > to handle the Video Acceleration API extension then extend libva to > divert the video through the MS-RDPEV protocol, thereby removing the > need for putting specific new support into the media players. > That sounds much better in terms of design. > The only thing I am not sure about is whether the VA API can handle > being handed the full MPEG2/H.264 etc video stream. You might need to > take the broken up video stream and reassemble it before it can be > pushed through the MS-RDPEV extension. If I understood directly your idea X11rdp would have to accept the video as the regular Xserver does via libva and instead of rendering it to a bitmap would send it to the client. The client would have to have to identify a certain "rectangle" as containing libva-like input and interpret it. But would this save enough bandwidth? Cheers Gustavo -- Angulo Sólido - Tecnologias de Informação http://angulosolido.pt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ xrdp-devel mailing list xrdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xrdp-devel
