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• Hotkeys
Opens a list of hotkeys defined before. Choose one entry, the command will be sent to
the host system.
A confirmation dialog can be added that will be displayed before sending the selected
command to the remote host. Select “OK” to execute the command on the remote host.
Figure 5-13. Remote Console Confirmation Dialog
• Encoding
These options are used to adjust the encoding level in terms of compression and color
depth. They are only available unless "Transmission Encoding" is determined
automatically (see the Section called
Transmission Encoding
in Chapter 6).
Compression Level:
you may select a value between 1 and 9 for the desired
compression level with level 1 enabling the fastest compression and level 9 the best
compression. The most suitable compression level should always be seen as a
compromise between the network bandwidth that is available, on your video picture to
be transferred, and on the number of changes between two single video pictures. We
recommend to use a higher compression level if the network bandwidth is low. The
higher the compression level the more time is needed to pack and unpack the video
data on either side of the connection. The compression quality depends on the video
picture itself, e.g. the number of the colors or the diversity of pixels. The lower the
compression quality, the more data have to be sent and the longer it may take to
transfer the whole video picture.
If level 0 is chosen the video compression is disabled, completely.
The option "Video Optimized" has its advantages if transferring high-quality motion
pictures. In this case the video compression is disabled, completely and all video data
is transferred via network as full-quality video snippets. Therefore, a high amount of
bandwidth is required to ensure the quality of
the video picture.
