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

[Oleksandr Shneyder]

Am 23.02.2011 06:28, schrieb Gerry Reno:
> On 02/22/2011 11:59 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 23:23 -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>   
>>> 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.
>>>     
>> Actually, although I have not used it, I believe Citrix is doing
>> something like this.  Whatever EyeOS is doing works very well.  HP is
>> taking a different approach by adapting their transport to the nature of
>> the video being transmitted.  If what I propose is feasible, we have a
>> possible solution.
>>   
>>> 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.
>>>     
>> It is not entirely seamless but, at least for our purposes, it is much
>> better than saying, "save the video to disk, transfer the file to your
>> local computer, now open it using your local media player." Let's do all
>> of that automatically for them.  That may not work well for your
>> environment but it would for ours.
>>
>>   
>>> A 'Catch-22' scenario that will probably only be solved with future
>>> network bandwidth increase.
>>>     
>> Not if what I propose if feasible or if we find a more video friendly
>> transport.
>>   
> 
> The only thing you can do is mock up some experiment and see if it works.
> 
> I'd be the first to shout 'hooray' if there's something better than the
> 2 alternatives we face now.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Gerry
> 
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Hello,

We have some ideas about redirecting videos to client pc, but currently
we have not enough resources to work in this direction.

Regards,
-- 
Oleksandr Shneyder
Dipl. Informatik
X2go Core Developer Team

email:  oleksandr.shneyder at obviously-nice.de
web: www.obviously-nice.de

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