Citrix Systems MetaFrame Presentation Server manual Enhanced Multimedia Support

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Enhanced Multimedia Support

MetaFrame Presentation Server offers the following major multimedia enhancements.

SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration

SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration optimizes streaming multimedia playback through published instances of or remote desktop connections to Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and RealOne Player. This feature offers significant performance gains in the following areas:

•User Experience. Multimedia playback in ICA sessions is about as smooth as local playback

•Server CPU Utilization. The client device decompresses and renders multimedia content, freeing up server CPU utilization

•Network Bandwidth. Multimedia content is passed over the network in compressed form, reducing bandwidth consumption

SpeedScreen Flash Acceleration

SpeedScreen Flash Acceleration allows you to optimize the way MetaFrame Presentation Server renders and passes Macromedia Flash animations to users. Flash animations are a common component of many Web sites and Web applications.

SpeedScreen Image Acceleration

Using lossy image compression, SpeedScreen Image Acceleration offers you a trade-off between the quality of photographic image files as they appear on client devices and the amount of bandwidth the files consume on their way from server to client. Lossy image compression reduces the size of image files the server sends to the client by removing redundant or extraneous data from the files.