[rdesktop-devel] Audio sometimes stutters, are there buffer settings to tweak?

[Paul R. <pau...@gm...>]

Hi,
I'm using rdesktop v1.7.1 to connect to a windows server 2008 R2
machine hosted in Amazon EC2.  I'm interested in running an audio
application there and I've already got this working fine using the "-r
sound:local" command line option.

The problem is that the audio occasionally stutters.  I believe my
bandwidth to the remote server is ample (I can download from the
server faster than what should be required for audio), so I suspect
insufficient buffering somewhere.  My latency to the remote server is
around 20 to 30 ms.

Is there a buffer size setting I could change either server side (in
RDP config) or client side (in rdesktop) to remedy this?  Recompiling
the rdesktop client is acceptable if there's a hardcoded constant
somewhere.


I understand that streaming audio over RDP is grossly inefficient as
it appears to stream uncompressed PCM.  This is acceptable for the
time being so long as I can fix the occasional stuttering issue.

Thanks in advance!  :)

-- 
Paul Richards
@pauldoo