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

Date: Sat 02/06/12 04:39:41 GMT

Name: AnthonyX

Email: anthonyx@jowc.net

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I know my way around Windows very well; just about everything I do is pretty much committed to Windows, and the all machines I have are committed to Windows ... I'd have to either run Linux virtually on a Windows server, or buy additional hardware. Can't really justify the time and/or money for such wholesale changes in hardware and learning how to do stuff... Unix/Linux is essentially an unknown beast to me as I haven't seen such in a very very long time. Maybe when I no longer have to earn a living, I'll look into it. For the time being, I just wanted to see if there was a quick fix out there. If not, I can live without seeing a few youtubes.

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Re:Off Topic: technical question about YouTube and Windows

By AL'eau - Fri 01/06/12 23:15:57 GMT

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I duno about your protocol but remote connection are never as fast as playing a video locally ;D

I suggest to use VirtualBox (formerly by SUN, now probably Oracle), and install on it a simple Unix system and voila : safe, secure and ... hidden !

By the way, if your fear is only "security", I suggest to install Linux as main OS, potentially an m$-window in a virtual box if really needed. It's what I have at home for a decade, and no attack succeeded.

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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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