Windows 08-R2, RDP, HP thin clients

[sericks]

I've seen older posts about Audacity not working with RDP...mostly sound related. I'm running 64 bit Windows 2008 R-2 app servers with HP 5740 thin clients usinp virtual RDP desktops. Does anyone know if Audacity will work in this scenario? The TC's do have integrated sound cards...but the app would run off the servers......

[kozikowski]

As a fuzzy rule, Audacity doesn't do well with complex systems or over a network. It has no provision for dealing with network delays or host hand-offs.

Delays kill live production. You can't tell the violin player to wait while the system clears packets.

Koz

[steve]

As Koz says, it's usually the network delays that are the killer, however, for small projects it may be possible to use Audacity by configuring Audacity to write data to the thin client's memory rather than to the network. This will of course severely restrict the size and complexity of the Audacity projects. You can expect a 10 minute project to use upward of 1 GB after a modest amount of editing. The recording itself (before any editing) will require around 20 MB per minute at the default quality settings for a stereo recording.