Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for controlling a media connection from within a remoting protocol are disclosed. Some embodiments may include a method for generating one or more client display update commands and one or more media control commands and encoding a remoting protocol server command based on the client display update commands and the media control commands. Embodiments may also include transmitting the remoting protocol server command to a remoting protocol client. Further embodiments may include receiving a remoting protocol client command from the remoting protocol client and decoding the received remoting protocol client command to extract from the remoting protocol client command one or more user input keys and one or more indications of client media status. Media control commands may include any type of command, such as commands to play, stop, pause, fast forward, rewind, change brightness, change contrast, etc. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.