Real-Time Audio Video (RTAV)
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.
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 device require, therefore 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 worked, but audio in using a 3.5 mm jack socket did not work at all. Audio out did work using the PCoIP audio redirection feature, which was much better than using a USB redirection.
The problem is that you can't split a USB audio device such that the audio out functionality remains local to the client and audio in is redirected. So, using a USB headset in a VoIP-type application required the entire headset...
