[THIN] Re: MetaFrame 3.0 Ships - Features: Multimedia

Yes, this is one of those "why didn't they think of this before" things, =
the
new client is smart enough to pass the streaming media call to the local =
PC
rather than try to play a movie though ICA!!=20

However, this will only work with the WIN32 client and requires a local
Media de-coder, so UNIX, etc will have to wait for this....

Steve Greenberg
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-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On =
Behalf
Of Timothy Mangan
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 3:02 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] MetaFrame 3.0 Ships - Features: Multimedia


There was a request to talk about the new features.  Time to move to a =
new
thread.

One of the touted enhancements for 3.0 is multimedia.  The Citrix demo
looked great - but it was a demo, right?  You never know what your =
mileage
will be until you try it yourself.

So I loaded up 3.0.  Launch the windows media player and watch a movie
trailer.  This is over a local LAN connection mind you.  The server CPU =
was
purring.  Saw about 10% of the bandwidth used and it didn't look bad,
although nothing like the demo.  There was some skipiness to the video, =
and
the audio was a little out of sync.

Then I remembered that I needed the 8.0 client to enable the =
enhancements.
So off I go and load that in.  The result was not usable.  The audio is =
way
off now.  And it hangs.  I'll have to try it on another machine, but =
wfica32
wants to use up all the client CPU.  Hopefully it's just a bad upgrade, =
but
the early results doesn't look like a feature to allow, even in a =
limited
use.

PS:  The movie "Laws of Attraction" looks like a pass, too.

Tim Mangan

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