[X2go-dev] X2Go media player for redirected video [was Re: EyeOS]

[Gerry Reno]

On 02/22/2011 10:16 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 21:09 -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
>   
> <big snip>
>> And rather than trying to pass the actual content around it's just seems
>> easier to post the content on a webserver that the users can access from
>> their client machines.
>>     
> This is where I disagree.  When we have control of the content and
> environment that works.  But that's not our environment.  We want as
> seamless a user experience as possible whether they are browsing the
> Internet and hit a video, clicking on an email attachment that happens
> to be video, or viewing some kind of embedded video content.  We expect
> our clients to be able to work as closely as possible to their physical
> environment in their virtual environment.  The onus is on us to make
> that possible as transparently as possible without changing their
> procedures.  That may not be true of all deployments but it is true of
> ours - John
>   

Right now there is no simple way to do this with x2go or any of the
other remote access technologies.

For true transparency the media would have to be played on the remote
desktop media player but then the performance is bad.

To get satisfactory performance you have to use the media players on the
users machine but then you would not have seamless experience.

A 'Catch-22' scenario that will probably only be solved with future
network bandwidth increase.


Regards,
Gerry