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| BrianHG:
--- Quote from: gf on June 29, 2021, 07:11:05 am ---Why not use Window's native Remote Destop facility directly? The RDP client (mstsc.exe) is can be used generally, w/o restrictions. In Windows 10 Pro, the RDP server is disabled by default and just needs to be enabled. If you need to run the server on the Home edition, or if you need multiple RDP connections to a computer, then you can enable the server via RDP Wrapper which is a free 3rd party program. It is supposed to work with various versions/builds of Windows. --- End quote --- In win7 it sucks crap. Slow, no window dragging with contents, I cant even effectively scroll an ascii text editor like notepad. No decent video speed. |
| tom66:
Windows has a built in RDP client for professional versions. It's the best one I've used. Beats Teamviewer by far. On Win10 it is nearly perfect. It seems like it takes the UI commands and replays them on the other end so it's not using much bandwidth even with a fairly active desktop and there are no compression artefacts. Compatible applications also stream compressed video over the network, so if you play a video in e.g. VLC, it appears near-realtime and decodes the video on the other end. About the worst thing about it is it doesn't handle audio well. So notification sounds and the like get garbled. Playing audio is fine apart from the first few seconds. I think it struggles with short playback as some applications keep the audio channel always active, so it has to determine what is worth streaming. |
| gf:
That's my feeling, too. Windows' RDP has evolved in the last years -- but Windows 7 is out of support for many years now, so it did of course not benefit from this development. On recent Windows Server and Windows 10 versions, I'd not be sure that any alternatives are really significantly faster than Windows' native RDP. On Windows Server, in conjunction with a supported server GPU, even GPU-accelerated RDP encoding is supported at the server side, AFAIK. But then we enter a different price category (and it's more relevant for multi-user systems where many users login to the same server concurrently via RDP). |
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