Using HDX MediaStream Multimedia Acceleration

William can improve the multimedia experience of the users by enabling the HDX MediaStream Multimedia Acceleration feature. This feature optimizes multimedia playback running in Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and RealOne Player, and offers significant performance improvements in these areas:

• CPU use: William can reduce the CPU use of XenApp servers by moving the multimedia content process to the client machine. Without HDX, when users play multimedia content in a session, XenApp decompresses and renders the multimedia file, increasing the server's CPU use.

• Network bandwidth: The multimedia content is compressed and delivered to client machines, reducing bandwidth consumption. Without HDX MediaStream Multimedia Acceleration, XenApp delivers the file uncompressed over the network, using more bandwidth.

HDX MediaStream Multimedia Acceleration optimizes playback of multimedia files that are encoded with codecs (programs used to encode or...