Remote desktop streaming video

Windows remote desktop does some kind of an OS-link between the two computers which provides limited functionality on the host machine...specifically, no hardware graphics acceleration. I was wondering if there are any alternatives that actually just stream the screen image using real time video encoding, so that I could use 3D apps over the connection

Uhmmm... no. You're never going to manage to pull off such a thing anytime soon. Perhaps in the future when everyone has a terabit Internet connection such things might happen but... you'll just have to live with the lame 2D interface.

There is no real way to do this

Put it this way single link DVI is 495 MB/s

Also programs like Remote Desktop use their own video driver that does not even use the Video Card. So there is not the power there to run like 3D games and video and such.

You guys are being overly pessimistic about this. We can all view streaming video from websites like YouTube in real time. There would surely be a visual loss of quality, but clearly there is no reason why I could not just as easily stream the video of my desktop. If a particular application did NOT require hardware acceleration, then it could be rendered remotely (to save bandwidth so you don't have to transmit video of the ENTIRE screen). If it DID require hardware acceleration, then this particular window could be rendered on the host machine and streamed over the internet using real time encoding. That is completely do-able...I've been recommended to use VNC...will that do it?

You still need one heck of a connection to do it.

Seems simple in theory, and is simple on a local machine, but the data rates are insane on a local machine compared to streaming over the net. Not to mention these technologies are not optimized to do what you are looking for.

yes there probably could be a way to compress things on the host and then send to the client, but programs like Remote Desktop, VNC, etc. are not made to do this with Video and such.

The program would need to stream the video seperatly from the rest of the screen and overlay it at the client. Would use the same amount of bandwith as streaming from Stage 6.