[X2Go-User] RHEL 7 beta

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:30 PM, GZ Nianguan E.T.
<opensource at gznianguan.com> wrote:
>
> Depending on your tolerance, you'd may be fine with one or two users playing
> back small low res videos... and get somewhat viewable results.
> Though on a server with 40-50+ users that simply is not going to be fun...

I've always thought there should be a special-case handler for many
thin-clients watching the same video in sync (like a classroom) where
the server would multicast the stream to a client-local player.  Might
be good for multi-room music or videos too.

> With the Telekinesis approach...  mTelePlayer directs your media "untouched"
> to the client side.... where a mplayer (or even VLC) instance, controlled
> through telekinesis is doing the actual playback with full HW acceleration

That sounds good, but will depend on the client-side player handling
every format you need.  That's a common issue with the similar DLNA
concept since the standard doesn't actually require it.

> The original intended use for Telekinesis and mTelePlayer was to provide
> good video playback on our X2Go centric thin client hardware
> (HW still under development). But it has kind of grown past that...
> And even though the thin client is primarily intended for boring stuff like
> offices and edu...
> With the media performances we're seeing... Its should also work quite well
> as a thin media client in your living room.
>
> The basic concept of Telekinesis & mTelePlayer is quite simple and proof of
> concept code was written up quite fast, but getting it to work as you'd
> expect a media player to work and making it "consumer ready" has been and
> still continues to be quite the journey...

Even vlc seems kind of clunky in the user interface department.

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  Les Mikesell
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