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Friday, May 10, 2013

Night Owl: Streaming Video over RDP

I recently installed a Night Owl camera system.  There is no Linux administration software; only Windows software exists.  A few years ago, this would have been a major issue for me.  Now, I have a Windows VM specifically for this type of program.

The Windows VM that I installed the software onto is not the VM that has the VGA card in it.  This VM is only accessible via VNC and RDP.  I tend to access this VM over RDP using my laptop with an N adapter.  I assumed the video playback wouldn't work, but I decided to give it a shot anyways.  I was surprised to find that I could easily stream both live video and playback of previously recorded video.  The quality wasn't great, but that is more of a function of the camera than the streaming.

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