Poor Video Remote Desktop

[the-saint]

Hi folks,
was wondering if anyone can help. I have 2 computers running windows Vista Ultimate one in the house, one in the garage. I use remote desktop on the PC in the house to access the PC in the garage.
Everything worked OK until recently when I noticed that the quality of the playback over remote desktop was very poor. This applys to files stored on the hard drive and when accessing sites such as you-tube. The playback is very jittery and stuttering to the extent that it is unwatchable.
I have searched around and updated flash player (correctly) to the latest version as I know there were some issues with that and Vista, but it is still the same and as I use windows media player to try and watch videos stored on the Garage hard drive I don't think the problem is here. Now this used to work very well and I could watch any video content with no problem so I am not sure what is going wrong......can anyone suggest a solution?

Both PC's are of OK specs (AMD Athlon 64x 2 dual core processor 4400+ with 2GB memory, Geforce 7600GT) so hopefully its not that.

Like I said this set up used to work fine so not sure if an automatic update (SP1 for Vista?) has changed any settings so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Gordon

 

[sbenj69]

Have you checked in Windows Task Manager to see if a service is using a lot of CPU cycles? Ctrl-Alt-Delete, choose task manager, click on Processes, then click on CPU until it shows it Descending.

 

[the-saint]

Hi

OK tried that on main PC. System idle 99%. On Garage its the same. When I start internet explorer and go to a web site with video on it via remote desktop, this only uses between 1 and 2% CPU and video is still very "choppy" so guess it's not that?

 

[sbenj69]

Are you talking choppy via the remote link, or choppy on the computer itself?

When you view the videos while sitting in front of the computer, is it still choppy?

 

[the-saint]

no when you view the video on the PC in the garage it is perfect it's just over the remote desktop link that I have the problem. Like I said it used to be fine over the remote desktop but has only recently become un-watchable

 

[georgedwilkinson]

Remote software video performance is poor. The software transmits changes to a jpg file from the remote to the local pc. I understand that jpg is a compressed format that loses information. I don't believe there is a "fix" for this...it is the nature of the beast.

 

[the-saint]

yeh but that does not explain how it worked well before? this is a new problem not one I have had since I started using it. As I said before it worked fine for years even when both computers ran windows XP so I am sorry but I don't believe it is the nature of the beast, something has been changed either settings on the PC's or by some update....I just can't fix it back to how it was

 

[the-saint]

For info, I noticed today that my data transfer rate between my 2 vista PC's was painfully slow so I disabled the tcp/ip V.6 on both computers, the result was a faster transfer rate and much better quality video over remote desktop.......worth trying if you are having the same problem as I was.

 

[the-saint]

actually......just cancel that above.....worked ok for a while then has went back to normal.....still very poor video

Can anyone please help?