Avalanche query

I’m running Avalanche as a VNC viewer on a Pi3 (RO5.24) in conjunction with TightVNC running on a Win7 laptop and it works well and reliably, except I can’t get an audio feed: the remote desktop remains silent, even for instance when playing a Youtube video, and I can’t see an obvious way to change this. Any advice from a more experienced user would be gratefully received!

VNC does not manage audio. RDP does.

Thanks, David: I thought that might be the case.

Some VNC implementations do support audio. I suspect there are multiple protocol extensions to support it (the QEMU protocol described here sends it as an uncompressed stream, which is fine for local use, but a bit silly for network use)

Jeffrey in vnc_server I understand that I have to click in the window for the pointer to appear but how come it only appears appears when I click on the desktop background but doesn’t appear when I click anywhere else. It’s the only problem I have with an otherwise excellent program.

Jeffrey in vnc_server I understand that I have to click in the window for the pointer to appear but how come it only appears appears when I click on the desktop background but doesn’t appear when I click anywhere else. It’s the only problem I have with an otherwise excellent program.

I was going to blame the OS (there’s no way of reading the pointer shapes that have been defined via OS_Word 21). But looking at the server source, it looks like it’s always monitoring the pointer states, so the server probably knows the right shape – it’s just that it doesn’t send the data right away when a client connects. Should be easy to fix…

VNC does not manage audio. RDP does.

or not. Sound on RO RDPlient has baffled many people more knowledgable than me.

I have to click in the window for the pointer to appear but how come it only appears appears when I click on the desktop background but doesn’t appear when I click anywhere else.

This is particularly annoying when connecting to a computer showing a full-screen window. The only way to deal with it is to put the pointer outside the Avalanche window directly above the “minimise” icon on the full-screen window, then move down a guessed amount in order to minimise the window, working blind. After that click on the desktop to get a pointer.

Sound on RO RDPlient has baffled many people more knowledgable than me.

It’s working fine here on all my configurations.
But it’s a fact that Windows is afraid of me :)

It’s working fine here on all my configurations.

Can you please tell us if you have Sound on !RDPClient working on a Raspberry Pi and if so:-
– What Raspbery Pi versions do you have?
– What version of RiscOS are you using?
– What Windows version are you using?

Tested with Pandaboard, Pi B, B+, 2B, 3B and 3B+.
RISC OS: 5.22 to the latest version (I upgrade about every 6 months).
Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10, on perhaps 10 different computers.
I always used the same configuration file for RDPClient.

Many thanks for that reply. I obviously have more work to do.

If you will be kind enough answer a few more queries:
– Which version of RDPClient are you using and where did you get it from.
– How are you getting sound out of the Rasperry Pi? HDMI, Headphone Jack or other?

And, similarly, which versions of SharedSound, SharedSoundBuffer and StreamManager are you using for sound?

I also have more work to do, and I’ve been trying since Panda days! ;-)

I guess we all still have a lot more work to do if we want to hear sound on RDPclient.

RDPClient 0.88 from official website.
On the Pi, it’s HDMI sound. On other computers, jack.

SharedSound: 1.20
SharedSoundBuffer: 0.07
StreamManager: 0.03

The current PC is an XP one.
Nota: while I get most Windows sounds, some applications won’t support RPD sound.

Hmmm…

Hadn’t considered that it’s a change in Windows that is the issue. Only ever tried on Windows 7 or 10.

Although the RDPClient website says it works with Windows 7.

Thank You, David,

That was the exactly the information I needed.

I now have Windows XP Media Player playing sound on my Rasperry Pi. (using headphone jack)

Now on to the detail of what I have been trying to do for some long time now.
– BBC Radio 1 tries to play Music but the sound “stutters”.
– BBC iPlayer plays video using Firefox, but the the sound “stutters” just like the radio.
– ITV Hub refuses to play at all (video or soound) with Firefox on Windows XP.

I will post updates when I have access to a Windows 7 computer.

but the the sound “stutters”

Perhaps it’s just RISC OS :) With recent ROM I have this problem with all sounds.
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/4/topics/15247

With recent ROM I have this problem with all sounds. How recent? I am using 5.24

Sorry, I have not read complete and maybe I missunderstand something…
Why you not use DigitalCD or Netradio or Streamer to play Radio streams or what ever? Have you try? BBC Radio 1 should not be a problem.

Can you advise which will stream live ITV programs from ITV Hub?

I wouldn’t have thought that RDP is really meant for remote video stream watching. Perhaps Raspian or better still, Kodi, on the local Pi would be a more suitable media player.

IME remote video streaming via Avalanche on a RO Pi is very much in the ‘dog walking on hind legs’ category: praiseworthy as a feat, but not particularly useful: you get the gist, but that’s about it. Connection speed is critical: a wired connection at c.18MB/sec is smoother than wifi at c.7MB/sec, obviously, but neither approaches the quality of the native feed.

EDIT: That said, maybe a Titanium with gigabit Ethernet and faster processor would do better than my Pi3?

Can you advise which will stream live ITV programs from ITV Hub?

Not really. ITV Hub is geoblogged. I need a UK IP to access.
Free German streams are usable for me.

But I have pick Radio stream addresses from here
and add to the DigitalCD playlist…

Than I try to pick an videostream from here, find this
and add “on the fly” to !Streamer…

Quick and dirty. Is a bit fiddly but maybe I can add a support.

Edit: If you have a interest, this ffplay is needed. Drop the playlistfile to the ffplay icnbar icon. If it works, there is a chance but I’m not sure how often the playlist address is changed.

Mmm, looks like I can change Streamer to handle the most of the streams from “filmon”. Have try ITV1 and 1+…
I have to add the main addresses manually because Netsurf can not handle the side.
Which channels are useful?