I have been researching how to enable hardware encoding on my work laptop so that my remote desktop experience is a little better.
Anyway, I did some research on this and I was able to (sort of) get hardware encoding running on the laptop (the remote system). However, it only works with the standard RDP client included with windows, mstsc.exe
I have issues with mstsc when I use multiple keyboards etc, but the new RDP Store app has none of these issues. The experience with app and its features are quite good compared to mstsc
So anyway, I enabled these two options
Prioritize H264
Configure H264in group policy.
To check I connected with mstsc.exe and I got this from the event log
AVC hardware encoder enabled: 1, encoder name is Intel® Quick Sync Video H.264 Encoder MFT. Server: ----
As per my research Event 170 means hardware encoding is enabled, as also stated in the Log message.
However when I connect via the Remote Desktop Store app, I get this event
The client supports version 0xA0400 of the RDP graphics protocol, client mode: 2, AVC available: 0, Initial profile: 2. Server: -----
The RDP store app has very little way of configuring anything for a connection.
I checked this post which says the client needs to tell the server that it wants to use AVC, however I can't find a way to make the RDP Store App to do that!
Is there anyway I can make the RDP store app connect the same way as mstsc.exe ?
System Configuration : Thinkpad L480, Intel Core i5 8250U, Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Kaby Lake)]
1 Answer
The Windows Store application does not currently support AVC encoding (and in general is not affected by group policies set on the machine).
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