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Jerry - 30 Nov 2005 20:21 GMT

Hello,

I know there is an issue with watching video over a WAN using Remote
Desktop and viewers like it. Is it possible to copy the video to the
client machine and have media player automatically open the file? This
would all need to be done seamlessly to the user after clicking a button
on an application running on the server.

I have read about virtual channels, but do not know if this could work.

If there is a better newsgroup to post this in, please let me know.

Thanks,

Jerry

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Sooner Al [MVP] - 30 Nov 2005 20:40 GMT

Well, if you copy a file from the remote PC to the local PC and subsequently
click on the file on the local PC then media player will open and play that
file automatically on the local PC. That is the default. Its also no
different that copying a file from another PC on the local LAN to your PC
then clicking on the file and having media play automatically launch.

Is that not what you mean?

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Jerry - 30 Nov 2005 21:03 GMT

Al,

Thanks for the reply.

No that isn't quite what I mean.

I have an application that plays a short clip (10 seconds). The user
clicks a button and starts a player. When using remote desktop, the
video is choppy.

I wanted to know if it was possible for me to copy the file to the
client machine and have it automatically begin to play once it is on the
clients machine. All the user should have to do is click the button.
I know you can manually copy and play the file, but I don't want the
end user to have to do this themselves.

Thanks,

Jerry

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Sooner Al [MVP] - 30 Nov 2005 21:25 GMT

I think the only way to do that would be to write a script of some sort that
might ftp/transfer the file from the remote PC and launch media player once
the file is on the local PC. But, I am not a script guy so...

There are some scripting news groups that you might post this to or a least
lurk/search via Google with...

AFAIK there is no way to do that with Remote Desktop.

Sorry I can't be of more help...

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