User manual

from View 5.3 Feature Pack 1. See the View Feature Pack Installation and
Administration document for View. If you have View Agent 6.0 or later, or
Horizon Agent 7.0 or later, no feature pack is required. Real-Time Audio-
Video is not supported in RDS desktops and remote applications.
Horizon Client computer
or client access device
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Real-Time Audio-Video is supported on x86 and x64 devices. This
feature is not supported on ARM processors. The client system
processor must have at least two cores.
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Horizon Client requires the following libraries:
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Video4Linux2
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libv4l
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Pulse Audio
The plug-in file (/usr/lib/pcoip/vchan_plugins/libviewMMDevRedir.so)
has the following dependencies.:
libuuid.so.1
libv4l2.so.0
libspeex.so.1
libudev0
libtheoradec.so.1
libtheoraenc.so.1
libv4lconvert.so.0
libjpeg.so.8
All of these files must be present on the client system or the Real-Time
Audio-Video feature will not work. Note that these dependencies are in
addition to the dependencies required for Horizon Client itself.
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The webcam and audio device drivers must be installed, and the
webcam and audio device must be operable, on the client computer. To
support Real-Time Audio-Video, you do not have to install the device
drivers on the desktop operating system where the agent is installed.
Display protocol for
View
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PCoIP
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VMware Blast (requires Horizon Agent 7.0 or later)
Real-Time Audio-Video is not supported in RDP desktop sessions.
Requirements for Multimedia Redirection (MMR)
With multimedia redirection (MMR), the multimedia stream is processed, that is, decoded, on the client
system. The client system plays the media content, thereby reducing the load on the ESXi host.
View remote desktop
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Single-user desktops must have View Agent 6.0.2 or later, or
Horizon Agent 7.0 or later, installed.
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Session-based desktops must have View Agent 6.1.1 or later, or
Horizon Agent 7.0 or later, installed on the RDS host.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Linux
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