Displaying Video over Windows VNC

[Boger, Mike]

Alex,
Thanks that worked- You are correct it is a CPU and Network hog... 

One issue that I was trying to resolve (that we've successfully
accomplished on the UNIX side) is place an objective metric on VNC
performance... We can basically state that "...given x latency, you
should get y performance out of either Citrix or VNC" Again, that was in
the UNIX world.

This was based on a white paper by Nieh, Yang and Novik:
http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/publications/tocs2001_slowmotion.pdf

Has anyone come up with a similar method for Windows?

Regards-
Mike    

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Pelts [mailto:alexp "at" broadcom.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 3:41 PM
To: Boger, Mike
Cc: VNC-List "at" realvnc.com
Subject: Re: Displaying Video over Windows VNC

Video is displayed on directx surface which is not picked up by free
version of vnc. If you use personal/enterprise edition of vnc with
mirror driver you will get video. IMHO, is it a bad idea, as it takes a
lot of cpu/bandwidth. You will be better off using something like vlc to
stream video over the network.

Regards,
Alex


Boger, Mike wrote:
> All-
> 
> I'm trying to benchmark video over a Windows VNC connection- The MPEG 
> video refuses to display over the VNC session. It displays on the 
> console, but all that displays on the shares is a black screen... The 
> Mplayer  counters all display, but no video.
> 
> I've tried different default color depths, no difference.
> 
> Thanks-
> Mike
> 
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