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March 6th, 2013 07:00
Troubles with Videolan (vlc) multimedia player
Hi,
We have vWorkspace 6 and users have troubles playing videos with vlc player in virtual desktops with Windows 7.
Users only receive the audio not the video. The vlc shows a blank screen.
I have enabled and disabled EOP optimizations without success.
Anybody uses videolan on vworkspace?
Which multimedia players are compatible with vworkspace?
Thanks.
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DELL-David Y
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March 6th, 2013 09:00
Mau,
There is no need to disable EOP Multimedia Redirection in this use case as it will not do anything for VLC, it only accelerates Windows Media Player.
Why is it that you require VLC and can't use Media Player?
David
mariamparo
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March 6th, 2013 09:00
Hi,
currently Windows Media Player is working fine, but sometimes our users need VLC.
If I disable EOP Multimedia Redirection, should work fine?
Thanks.
Mau
DELL-David Y
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March 6th, 2013 09:00
Hello Mau,
vWorkspace 6 is now a very old release and did not support Windows 7, therefore you may have issues when using it as described. Support for Windows 7 came in vWorkspace 7.0, with the current release being 7.6.
The EOP media player enhancements only apply to files played through Windows Media Player, you may have more success if you installed any relevant codecs and then tried to play the file through WMP with the EOP options enabled.
Failing that ,are you able to upgrade to a later release as we have made many enahncements to the product, specifically EOP.
Regards
David
mariamparo
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March 6th, 2013 09:00
Sorry,
I was wrong, we are actually using vWorkspace 7.6
Mau
DELL-Andrew W1
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March 6th, 2013 09:00
MMR is for Windows Media Player. It doesn't work with 3rd party like VLC.
Try Windows Media Player with our EOP Multimedia Redirection enabled and you should get a very good experience.
mariamparo
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March 6th, 2013 10:00
Hi,
Users need vlc because we are using vWorkspace at a University and some of our virtual desktops are "lab desktops" and users need vlc in some degrees.
Thanks.
Mau.
Dell-Matt-E
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March 6th, 2013 15:00
One option, but requires a 3rd party product, would be to use something like RES Virtual Desktop Extender. This would allow you to redirect applications from the end point into the Virtual Machine. So basically, you would install VLC on the end point and this would be redirected into the Virtual Desktop as if it were local, basically reverse seamless applications.