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The X protocol is based on remote procedure calls to the X server. X forwarding basically just means that instead of sending these commands to a local X server they are piped through a TCP socket and then processed by a local X server to display program windows. Unfortunately, this doesn't really work for OpenGL calls so you cannot run programs that require 3D acceleration using X forwarding. Have a look at VLC and VirtualGL as alternatives.

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