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mp.casey
02-24-2006, 10:27 PM
Hello all,
I've been trying to use Terminal Services (remote desktop) to basically use my Pocket PC as a remote control for a desktop sound system. I can connect fine, start Windows Media player, but I'm unable to play any songs from there (it's as if Media Player doesn't find the file even though playing it from the desktop directly is fine).

I'm looking for the same functionality you get desktop to desktop with Remote Desktop--the ability to "leave the sound at the remote computer".

Any ideas would be most appreciated!
Thanks
Darius Wey
02-25-2006, 03:29 AM
Terminal Services Client may be a little overkill for something like this. Would you be interested in trying an application like PPC Tablet? (http://www.aacompserv.com/AACompWeb/Modules/PPCTablet/WhatIsIt.aspx)

It supports multiple custom profiles - one of them being Windows Media Player. It works over any wired/wireless network connection.
gwinter
02-25-2006, 03:37 PM
I'm looking for the same functionality you get desktop to desktop with Remote Desktop--the ability to "leave the sound at the remote computer".

The client on PPC is a very basic one that lacks such a feature. I think there is no sound driver loaded is therefore Media Player is unable to play any media files. Even the video driver used is a very basic one; if a program needs video overlay support, for example, it will fail to run.

Take a look at VNC instead. It would do what you want.
Janak Parekh
02-25-2006, 08:48 PM
Both gwinter and Darius are correct about this. Just FYI, Remote Desktop v5, the one that comes with Windows XP, supports "audio redirection", and the client must tell the desktop whether to keep audio "on the desktop" or to forward it to the "remote connection" (or to turn it off). Unfortunately, the Pocket PC client supports a version of the Remote Desktop Protocol (v4, originally shipped with Windows 2000 Server) that doesn't handle audio at all or many video features (only 256 colors, no overlays as gwinter mentioned, etc.) XP is backwards compatible, but those features end up turned off.

--janak