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Subject: Re:Off Topic: technical question about YouTube and Windows

Date: Fri 01/06/12 22:04:32 GMT

Name: Malvineous

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RDP is a very curious and complex protocol. For low-colour windowing, it's extremely fast, but for high colour graphics (including ClearType) it's terrible.

Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010 put colour gradients in their dialog boxes, and the speed drop when accessing the server remotely over the Internet is staggering – opening Exchange dialogs feels like watching images load off cassette tape on an 80s micro. Fortunately, you can turn this absurdity off. RDP is far slower than something like Radmin -- it's like RDP has no image compression whatsoever. (RDP does things like cache images and render render animations client-side, so you can have an Explorer animation moving even when the connection to the server has stalled. It's optimised for its intended use case, not for video streaming.)

I'm surprised that you can actually watch video over RDP. I would have thought that running a virual machine in Oracle VirtualBox on your own PC would be better, since at least you're not shifting animation anywhere, but that is in itself intensive.

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Off Topic: technical question about YouTube and Windows

By AnthonyX - anthonyx@jowc.net Fri 01/06/12 06:15:10 GMT

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This is a question aimed at the techies who know more about this stuff than I do...

I don't use my usual computer for casual browsing. What I actually do is run a virtual Windows environment on a server and connect to it from another computer via RDP. It makes my "casual browsing" system quite disposable should it ever get infected.

Anyway... the problem I have is Youtube. I can play Youtubes on my "regular" computer no problem, but many times, a youtube won't play over RDP. Sometimes it's fine. Sometimes the same clip will play fine one time but not another. When it fails to play properly, the behaviour is always the same. The image freezes, usually on the first frame, occasionally updates once or twice to a later frame. The audio plays, sometimes unaffected and all the way through, but sometimes the audio freezes too. Most other video formats will work fine, and often a "commercially produced" HD youtube will work fine as well. Cellphone videos are typically the most troublesome, although most "home movie" clips are problematic too. Seems as if it works better if "high-end" gear was used to create the clip.

Can any of the technical experts offer any insight into why this might be happening, and if there is any way I can watch any/all youtubes via my RDP setup?

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