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ThedesktopusercanoverrideAdobeFlashsettingsinthedesktop.Formore
information,see“OverridingBandwidthReductionSettingsintheDesktop”on
page 110.
Setting Adobe Flash Quality and Throttling
YoucanspecifyamaximumallowablelevelofqualityforAdobeFlashcontentthat
overridesanyWebpagesettings.IfAdobeFlashqualityforagivenWebpageishigher
thanthemaximumlevelallowed,qualityisreducedtothespecifiedmaximum.Lower
qualityresultsinmorebandwidthsavings.Thefollowing
AdobeFlashrenderquality
modesareavailable:
Donotcontrol:QualityisdeterminedbyWebpagesettings.
Low
Medium
High
Ifnomaximumlevelofqualityisspecified,thesystemdefaultstoavalueofLow.
AdobeFlashusestimerservicestoupdatewhatisshownonthescreenatagiventime.
AtypicalAdobeFlashtimerinterv alvalueisbetween4and50milliseconds.By
throttling,orprolonging,the
interval,youcanreducetheframerateandthereby
reducebandwidth.Thefollowingthrottlingmodesareavailable:
Disabled:AdobeFlashcontentisdisabledentirely.
Conservativemode:Timerintervalis100milliseconds.Thissettingresultsinthe
lowestnumberofdroppedframes.
Moderatemode:Timerintervalis500milliseconds.
Aggressivemode:Timerintervalis2500milliseconds.Thesettingresultsinthe
highestnumberofdroppedframes.
WiththeexceptionofDisabledmode,audiospeedremainsconstantregardlessof
whichthrottlingmodeyouselect.
To configure Adobe Flash quality and throttling
1FromwithinViewAdministrator,clickEditandselectDesktop/PoolSettings.
2 Selectanappropriatequalitymodefromthe
AdobeFlashqualitydropdown
menu.