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I've got VNC up and running on my N800 (pre-Diablo OS2008) - excellent Client port, what a treat to be able to put my desktop through its paces from the back porch.

Couple of quick questions:

Has anyone found a method or server settings to speed up the screen refresh/polling rate? Static image, word/excel etc. are all OK even if a bit pokey, but video transfer is marginal, even though my LAN is pretty fast.

File types for video seem hit or miss. Windows media player is a bust, a black hole on the N800 where the vid should be. Flash/flv files play fairly well in FLV player, if a bit jerky. Curiously, files like mpegs that don't show at all on the N800 with WMP will show on the tablet if played in QuickTime, but extremely choppy.

I know I'm probably asking a lot of my poor little tablet, but maybe I'm just missing something obvious...

Well, any videos are going to run "extremely choppy"; I don't remember the details, but IIRC the current vncviewer is very limited in encodings supported, and any method of transferring uncompressed video isn't going to be good. The best option is probably jpg, if it'll work.

As to why some show and some don't, it may be related to how they draw on screen; anything doing hardware overlay won't work. Also, unless you're polling, it's possible that WMP is drawing in a way that bypasses the hooks for vnc to detect an update needs sent; you should be able to set polling for particular windows to fix this one.

Thanks for the info, that makes sense...jpegs display even better on the tablet than on my PC, with its high res Sony monitor, the colors are more natural. Also VNC turns out to be a nice work around for playing Java based games, just run them locally on the PC, play and control from the tablet with VNC!