Methods for playing multimedia content at remote graphics display client

A computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to perform a method comprising:

• sequentially transmitting a stream of data objects to a client over a network, the stream being generated by a desktop application representing a snapshot of a display output of the desktop application, the data objects to be rendered at the client for graphics remoting purposes;
• detecting that a multimedia object is to be rendered from the desktop application;
• and
• causing the multimedia object to be rendered remotely at the client without having to render the multimedia object locally and without having to transmit a display result of the rendering to the client over the network.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor via a bus, the memory storing instructions, which when executed from the memory, cause the processor to perform a method, the method including
• sequentially transmitting a stream of data objects to a client over a network, the stream being generated by a desktop application representing a snapshot of a display output of the desktop application, the data objects to be rendered at the client for graphics remoting purposes,
• detecting that a multimedia object is to be rendered from the desktop application, and
• causing the multimedia object to be rendered remotely at the client without having to render the multimedia object locally and without having to transmit a display result of the rendering to the client over the network.