{"id":714,"date":"2016-09-04T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sachathomet.ch\/?p=714"},"modified":"2017-03-12T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T09:10:25","slug":"welcome-to-the-jungle-of-the-citrix-display-modes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sachathomet.ch\/de\/2016\/09\/04\/welcome-to-the-jungle-of-the-citrix-display-modes\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Jungle … of the Citrix Display Modes"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I started to work with Remote Desktop stuff\u00a0back in 2001 there was one thing definitely not possible, watch\u00a0a video over a remote connection – not even with Citrix … in the last years a lot of things changed and Citrix improved their protocols and Video codecs from version to version. Today you can do awesome things over a remote connection with Citrix. There are many blogs and articles which shows what’s possible, also for GPU mapping 3D stuff and so on … this blog doesn’t describe how you can get the awesome 3D things out from your VDI. It’s more what if you don’t have special requirements for 3D, you don’t have time to test all possibilities, no time to tune, but you want have the best result according to the\u00a0Pareto principle.<\/p>\n

What do you configure? Nothing? Just default, because default is the setting which will fit for most Users?<\/h4>\n

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Are\u00a0you aware that default setting on XenApp\/XenDesktop until VDA\u00a0\u00a07.9 was Thinwire with H.264<\/span> and since VDA 7.9 it’s Thinwire Plus (Compatibility Encoder)<\/span>?<\/strong>
\nYou need to consider this fact before you upgrade from 7.x to 7.9! Why they changed that? Is Thinwire Plus\u00a0better? No! Is Thinwire H.264 better? No!
\nIt’s just different! What are the differences? What I need to choose? It depends! But on what?<\/p>\n

This blog post is mainly a\u00a0comparison\u00a0between Thinwire Plus and Thinwire H264 !<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve done a survey what is preferred for the codec on twitter, funny result 50% vs 50%:<\/p>\n

\"Twitter-h264thinwire\"<\/p>\n

I’ve started some tests, also with the\u00a0Pareto principle, so no deep\u00a0scientific background! I tested an internal video in our Intranet of 53 seconds and 1 minute of a YouTube video, Big Buck Bunny<\/a>, with 25 fps, \u00a0set to 720p in\u00a0YouTube. I had an eye on the user experience, means fragments, fluent movie, lip-sync and on the other side on the resource consumption like CPU and bandwidth.<\/p>\n

(Advice if you like to do your own tests,\u00a0Big Buck Bunny is nice to impress people but if you want test for lip-sync take an other movie … the Bunny\u00a0doesn\u2019t talk much ….\u00a0)<\/p>\n

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\"RDAnalyzer14\"<\/p>\n

For this tests I used the best, or the only one tool<\/span> on the market to analyze remote display stuff, the Remote Desktop Analyzer <\/a>from
\nBram Wolfs and Barry Schiffer. In version 1.4 you can do some very helpful statistic reports:<\/p>\n

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I have tested with:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Virtual Desktop:<\/p>\n