Sound Card for Terminal Server?

[jmair]

I need to get an audio card for our terminal server. It's been 15 years since I needed to buy a sound card. What spec should I be looking for to allow multiple students steaming audio? I don't think they call it polyphony anymore...

[free780]

Doesn't windows just use the rdp audio driver?

[jmair]

I need to first have some piece of audio hardware on the server, but from their I don't know what/how the audio is handled. 90 client connections x 2 audio channels each (youtube + system sounds as an example) would the sound card manage the potential 180 concurrent audio, and if so would a simple $40 sound card with one cpu on it do the trick? I have no idea how that's managed, and it's 100% possible that I'm over thinking this and it shouldn't matter.

 

 

This will be used by k-5th graders mainly for reading and comprehension. An audio track giving sounds, " a cow goes Moooo Moooo". I would hate for it to studder once 10 kids get on and it goes " a a a cow ow ow ow go o o o ssss Moo oo oo oo Moo oo oo oo "... The kids would never say anything and the staff would never know that it's doing it.

Edited December 9, 2013 by jmair

[free780]

I might try tomorrow on a vm with no soundcard. I think it may be done in software which will be dependent on cpu and memory. If the cow goes moo what does the fox say?

[mjs_mjs]

I'm pretty sure it's handled by the windows stack and that you wont need anything fancy for normal audio over rdp. Best thing is to rdp into your server from a machine with audio then play a YouTube video with audio... I would suggest that

is suitable listening music from the above.

 

Enabling Audio over RDP on a Windows Server, sans hardware soundcard | KnowledgeLayer says that it isn't needed as I thought, and Do you need a soundcard in the server for terminal services? - Ars Technica OpenForum also agree's in places that no SC is needed for TS to rdp sound.

 

But as I say give it a go and see for yourself with you own set up.