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

Yes - I played with it.  You need the ICA8 client to use it.  The new
setting is basically a number of seconds to buffer.  On a good LAN
connection with an overpowered server it doesn't matter.

Tim 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrew Rogers
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 3:57 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: MetaFrame 3.0 Ships - Features: Multimedia

I imagine you checked, but isnt there a new speedscreen setting to enable t=
his now?

Andrew
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>>> tmangan@xxxxxxxxxxxx 28/04/04 23:01:35 >>>
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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