Bring Windows Media Redirection to VMware Horizon Client for Linux

Multimedia redirection (MMR) technology helps improve performance by utilizing the client endpoint to process media―instead of the server―so CPU utilization on the server can be reduced. It also can reduce the bandwidth and thus provide a smooth playback experience.

For a long time, MMR can only be deployed to VMware Horizon Client for windows, as MMR requires a few Windows components. But VMware has been working hard with gstreamer and Fluendo, and now MMR is available in Horizon Client for linux.

What Is Required?

MMR offloads the media processing from the server to the client, so there is a minimum requirement for the client.

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core Memory: 2 GB RAM Video Adapter: Hardware accelerated

What Is Supported?

Read the entire article here, Bring Windows Media Redirection to VMware Horizon Client for Linux

via the fine folks at VMware End-User Computing Blog

tags: Memory VMware Horizon Suite VMware Related VMware Virtual Desktops

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