Following on from the unified communications support, the next question we hear concerns support for plugging in a USB webcam and using it with a virtual desktop.
Real-Time Audio-Video (RTAV)
The issue
Like unified communications and VoIP, using a webcam, or using audio in and audio out on a virtual desktop machine was not initially supported due to the high bandwidth requirements these types of devices require, thereby resulting in poor performance. Any redirection of these types of devices was previously handled with the USB redirection feature of the PCoIP protocol.
This is how audio-in used to work, but audio-in using a 3.5 mm jack socket did not work at all. Audio-out did work when using the PCoIP audio redirection feature...