[X2Go-User] RHEL 7 beta

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:21 AM, GZ Nianguan E.T.
<opensource at gznianguan.com> wrote:
> Synchronized playback is somewhere on the "to do" list.
>
>
> As for client side requiring support for the media format...
> The alternative is turn everything into a "known" format on the server
> side...(transcoding?) which is just takes too much server resources... and
> introduces a bunch of other issues...

I'm not sure that sometimes, in some situations, some servers not
having enough resources should rule out a software design that is
useful in other scenarios.  Consider a home server driving one media
player to push things to a big screen.

> In a linux thin client environment
> distributing new codecs or update to existing codecs is not a big deal.. As
> for clients running as an application on traditional desktops, we may
> integrate some form of codec distribution system.

Maybe - if it is all automatic and transparent.  But what about the
situation where the client has hardware support for one codec - and
needs it for performance, and that's not the media format?

> mTelePlayer certainly not a 100% perfect solution, but I dare say its a
> pretty decent step up from the current state of things...

How does it differ from what you could do with a DLNA
server/viewer/controller - or components that provide DLNA-compatible
functionality with the controller part running in the server?  That
approach would let the client interoperate with other media servers -
and perhaps allow playing directly to some devices with embedded
clients, although I'm not sure if many currently accept remote
controllers.

Or, will this all go through the ssh tunnels to the clients with
overhead for encryption?

> Recent studies done by the "GIOCS" (Global Institute of Obvious and Common
> Sense) show that the average user care more about the quality of media
> playback than the appearance of the GUI.

I think the most frustrating part is when the media and the player are
incompatible - and with the proliferation of formats that tends to be
common.

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   Les Mikesell
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