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

I've been wondering how companies get around the dialup support issue in =
2003. Do any of you have any suggestions? Basically I've got some users =
that do not have an ISP at home (oddly most of these types of users are =
Partners) and use Citrix as their connection to the Internet. I also =
have users who do have an ISP but need to dial in while they are on the =
road and do not have a provider that has local access numbers in the =
place they are visiting.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Reese [mailto:GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 6:08 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: MetaFrame 3.0 Ships - Features: Multimedia


Personally, I think their whole new thing with offloading the media back
to the client pc kind of defeats the purpose.  Running apps client side
isn't too thin.  It's cool they can do it and I am sure somebody out
there has a need for it but things have been getting less and less thin
with each version.  Dial up in support with Windows 2003 is not even
available any more.

Greg=3D20

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Timothy Mangan
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 6:02 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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