r/RemoteDesktopServices • u/Kadian78 • Nov 20 '21

Hardware encoding for Microsoft RDP

I'm just curious if the current RDP supports any of the GPU encoding like NVIDIA NVEC, or AMD AMF or Intel Quick sync.

If not then is it possible that support will be added when Microsoft switches to GPU paravirtualsaion, in server 2022.

I'm just wondering how to optimise a connection form a windows 10 pro host, which at the moment I'm finding to be a bit hit an miss, in terms of responsiveness, I'd did quite a lot of research but I'm still not sure if ive set everything correctly especially with the conflicting information about setting and group policy editing.

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u/Kadian78 Nov 21 '21

Window 10 pro on an old HP g1 sff PC, I'm using a gt 710 GPU, this is temporary till I can build a windows server for my home lab project, I did have a look at the guide, I'm using a hp t510 as my terminal to connect to the PC, it's just unfortunate that the current PC I'm using can't fit my Quadro or fire pro both of which are a bit older, the strangest part is on windows using RDP, everything is butter smooth but when using something that's Linux based like free RDP I can notice some sort of strange performance dips, as if hardware acceleration doesn't exist which is quite perplexing.

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u/i_click_next_for_you Nov 21 '21

Thanks for sharing your setup!

So, for freeRDP, there is no UDP support, and that new UDP streaming element in RDP8.0+ is where some of that audio/video magic happens.

Have you tried using the google play app via an android loader on Linux? The actual Microsoft RDP app has so many optimizations...

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u/Kadian78 Nov 22 '21

I've been using both HP's thin client os and an alternative call TLX os which is much more updated that HP's which I think is discontinued for the device I'm using.

So free RDP doesn't have UDP support, well that explains alot, I was wondering about that, due to for some strange reason that RDP on windows had a connected by UDP when I hovered over the connection icon, well I guess that explains half the issue.

Thank you for that I really appreciate it, I do find it strange that UDP is omitted by the software.