Operating over VNC

[hud$]

I've had a search around the forum and I can see that several of you access xbmc over VNC from a laptop.

When I use VNC my laptop shows a flickering mess, you can just make out where the menus are etc, but it's very difficult to do anything. I have tried with PMH3, xTV and Aeon so it can't be a fault of the skin. VNC works fine with other applications on my mini mac.

Is this something to do with my refresh rate, or another setting?

[iordonez]

That's because XBMC isn't drawn like normal OS X apps, it's ARD/VNC draws it like a movie file playing. Hence slow performance and flickering.

[hud$]

So is there any solution? Or an alternative to VNC which will work?

[iordonez]

Not really any solution I can find thus far...

[zAo_OSX]

I run XBMC windows (800x600) and share the screen with Apple Remote Desktop. It's doable. (just a little slow).