Windows 7 RDP Video playback

azzeretti

I don't do Windows much anymore. I have been trying to build a KVM based solution for a customer with Windows 7 VMs and while everything seemed fine to start with I noticed that video playback over an RDP session - on a Gb network is choppy at best. I thought it was the rdesktop client on the linux thin client but when I tried to RDP from another Windows 7 PC (physical) to the VM I got the same playback issues. I then RDP'd from one Windows 7 PC to another (both physical) and noticed the same problem.

Does anyone know if there is some trick to enabling decent playback over RDP? I have redirection set correctly and the experience is set to LAN but still the playback is terrible!?

Antar Bolaeisk

I think you'd need to be looking at third party solutions for decent playback, I've never seen a video play smoothly on RDP, it just doesn't like working with constantly refreshing large areas like that.

You could try video redirection but it will only work with certain file types I think and definitely won't work with things like youtube: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759165.aspx

Fysh

I'd suggest taking a look at RemoteFX.

jimmycrackcorm

Why play the video in the RDP itself - just share or stream from the pc itself.