Hello Ken,
As I understand it:
Sun Ray 2 hardware has more processing power than the Sun Ray 1 based
hardware.
The Sun Ray 4.2 Server software and firmware utilize these extra
resources to accelerate some multimedia formats.
This is done with X11 and X11 extensions: Xvideo and Xvenc.
Especially the multimedia extension Xvenc (used for video streams) can
only be used on Sun Ray 2.
Since the Unix environment uses X11 and these extensions natively. all
these acceleration functions are already available in Unix. (If the
player supports it)
The Windows multimedia redirection was needed because rdp lacks the
ability to provide synchronized audio and video.
So the SUN multimedia redirection software in Windows puts the video and
audio in rdp channels which are mapped by uttsc to the available X11
extensions already available in (Open) Solaris and Linux.
So there is support for Multimedia enhancement in Unix already.
However Sun marketing focused only on the new Windows features and did
not mention the work which was done in Unix to make these features work
for Windows. ;-)
So with SRSS 4.2 on Opensolaris build 127 I have the same flash
performance as I have from Windows with the MMR software installed.
Well...In real life it it even better under Unix since flash 10 content
works.
The MMR software in Windows does not support Flash 10 content yet and
this give sometimes unexpected results on websites with Flash 10 contect.
Ivar
Ken Mandelberg wrote:
The Sunray 2 hardware added some measure of multimedia acceleration
for Windows, but not for Solaris or Linux.
Is there any hardware or software in the pipeline for Sunray that
would address multimedia for *nix desktops?
The direction used for Windows is to leverage graphics acceleration
hardware in the Sunray 2. If that is not in the cards for *nix, would
Sunray hardware with a gigabit lan interface address the issue, or is
the bottleneck elsewhere?
Finally, if Oracle/Sun is not interested in thin client multimedia
support for *nix desktops, is there a competitive thin client solution
that would?
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