As far as I know, that isn't exactly true. Yes XVideo and XVEnc are available, but there are no UNIX apps that use the XVEnc API at this point. Windows multimedia redirection is just using XVEnc to send video to be decoded on the DTU. UNIX apps are using either XVideo or normal display updating, not XVEnc. Flash on UNIX isn't even using XVideo but because the Sun Ray protocol itself is already pretty efficient, you may get pretty decent results anyways. But if you compare the bandwidth usage of Flash on UNIX and Flash on Windows with MMR, you'll notice the former is much higher because it isn't decoding on the DTU, it's just sending frames. In that way, the Sun Ray firmware doesn't have to be updated for Flash 10, as long as the browser plugin works, the Sun Ray will be able to show it too.
William Yang > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:sunray-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ivar Janmaat > Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 10:59 AM > To: SunRay-Users mailing list > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Multimedia on Solaris or Linux? > > 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? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SunRay-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
