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Remote Access to another computer
halfelite:
RDP stands for remote desktop protocol. Its what you would use if you used built in windows remote. Right click my computer properties remote enable remote desktop add user .... then on another machine, click start programs accessories click remote desktop connection type ip of local machine hit connect.
if you use something like teamviewer you install a chunk of software on each machine. Just let it be known sound/video do not work over remote sessions very well. And you wont see any video if its hardware accelerated
lapa321:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 26, 2012, 04:10:35 AM ---nah i cant, theres some tasks that occupies both keyboard and mouse cursor while doing them, so leaving another computer to do it while using some other computer to surf or something works better.
but to make it simple, the tasks im making the PC do will hog it and it'll become unusable for other purposes, so making another computer do it would allow me to use my main freely.
whats the definition of RDP? i know its an acronym... or its not?
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RDP = Remote Desktop Protocol
It's a protocol designed specifically for microsoft, so unlike VNC you will not see anything like it on other platforms. You can only find RDP clients, RDP servers are strictly microsoft only. The good thing about it is that it doesn't just rely on mirroring the screen. The interface is rendered on the client side. So it uses less bandwidth, and knows when your cursor is over a textbox.
The cool thing about it is that if WindowsMediaPlayer supports the codec, it will send you the video stream directly and have it decoded on your end. In WinXP, if you were to play a video on another computer and watch it over RDP, you'd get laggy screen as well as audio/video being out of sync. On the Win7 RDP, it knows when you're trying to decode a video stream and sends it directly to you instead. No video/audio sync problems since it's decoded on your end. Of course, WMP isn't very robust compared to MPC, so the video streaming doesn't actually work most of the time.
I found out about it when i RDP'd to an old netbook. The netbook isn't capable of playing HD in software mode but it was playing fine over RDP. That's why i'm guessing that it was my machine doing the decoding.
billlanam:
--- Quote from: lapa321 on April 26, 2012, 04:35:00 AM ---
RDP = Remote Desktop Protocol
It's a protocol designed specifically for microsoft, so unlike VNC you will not see anything like it on other platforms. You can only find RDP clients, RDP servers are strictly microsoft only. The good thing about it is that it doesn't just rely on mirroring the screen. The interface is rendered on the client side. So it uses less bandwidth, and knows when your cursor is over a textbox.
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Linux has a rdp server, but I don't know how well it works.
lapa321:
It does? Whoa. I didn't know microsoft licensed out the RDP server. The app developers i talked to who made mobile RDP apps said it was difficult getting a license from microsoft to develop RDP clients.
Anyway, here's an example of Video Playback over RDP (If WMP supports the codec)
This one uses MPC, and is probably what would happen if you were using VNC. I know the video in the picture just started, but those values persisted for the entire duration of the video.
(click to show/hide)MPC-HC.EXE is running at 30% cpu, but still rather choppy.
This one uses WMP.
(click to show/hide)As you can see, it's at 0%, and it's perfectly smooth because it's being decoded on my end. Also note the difference in bandwidth usage.
Of course, this really isn't very practical since i've got the video shared over LAN anyway. But it shows one of the advantages of RDP over VNC. RDP is better integrated into windows.
On the other hand, if you're going to connect to another PC outside your local network (someone that doesn't know how to configure their router, or 99% of the people out there) get teamviewer.
kureshii:
--- Quote from: lapa321 on April 26, 2012, 05:24:12 AM ---It does? Whoa. I didn't know microsoft licensed out the RDP server. The app developers i talked to who made mobile RDP apps said it was difficult getting a license from microsoft to develop RDP clients.
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Don't think they did; there're just a whole bunch of other implementations out there. Virtualbox even has an RDP server bundled in, for headless VM setups.
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