Re: Which machine

In article <3fca76034e.acld75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
george <george.greenfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At the risk of getting off-topic, I've just started driving a laptop PC
from my Iyonix desktop using VNC as supplied by R-Comp via the Iyo's
Net100 network. It's usable, but not as responsive as operating the
laptop via a KVM switch: DVD's are unviewable. VNC is set up to show the
laptop display full-screen (1024 x 768) which fits nicely onto the Iyo's
1280 x 1024 display, at 16-bit colour depth. How do you find
RDPClient/Avalanche?

You won't be able to view DVDs using a remote desktop client for two reasons:

1) the data won't squirt through the link uncompressed because it'll
probably be too high bandwidth and if the server were clever enough to
compress it (e.g. into an H.264 stream) you don't have the decode software
in your client.

2) the above won't work anyway because most PCs use hardware acceleration to
decode DVDs so the remote desktop sever never gets a look-in.

Performance of RDPClient and Avalanch are both perfectly acceptable on an
Iyonix here. I find that Avalanch has redraw problems with the silly
curved-corner windows on my SUSE linux box (a known issue). I've never seen
any redraw problems on the RDPClient with my Windows machines.

Clearly, if you're doing tasks which involve a lot of changes going on on
the screen, you'll be making a lot of hard work for your remote desktop
connection. For most day-to-day tasks (like driving a work processor or even
web browsing), it's fine.

Steve

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