Sun MMR Media Player vs Flash

Are there practices that can improve the robustness of Windows media player when used with MMR (multimedia redirection)? Fortunately, we are more interested in Adobe Flash, and this with MMR in Early Access seems much more robust. With Media Player 10 and 11, we have frequent crashes and assorted no-play experiences.
As far as I can tell, Media player and MMR is about the same experience in SRSS 4.1 and Early Access. The problems we see (in limited testing) with Flash are the known "Flash config dialog unresponsive" and that some Flash videos (e.g., the trailer for "Harry Potter") are extremely choppy (even though these don't seem to be much different in size than others that are acceptable).
Config: Solaris 10/x86 on X4200 and X2200. We are testing against ordinary XP machines (Pentium 4 and Core2).
Darrel Hankerson

grommit wrote:
Are there practices that can improve the robustness of Windows media player when used with MMR (multimedia redirection)? Fortunately, we are more interested in Adobe Flash, and this with MMR in Early Access seems much more robust. With Media Player 10 and 11, we have frequent crashes and assorted no-play experiences.
As far as I can tell, Media player and MMR is about the same experience in SRSS 4.1 and Early Access. The problems we see (in limited testing) with Flash are the known "Flash config dialog unresponsive" and that some Flash videos (e.g., the trailer for "Harry Potter") are extremely choppy (even though these don't seem to be much different in size than others that are acceptable).
Config: Solaris 10/x86 on X4200 and X2200. We are testing against ordinary XP machines (Pentium 4 and Core2).
Darrel HankersonAre you playing HD YouTube videos by default? The Harry Potter trailers have HD versions as well. HD versions of YouTube videos are too large to be well accelerated.

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Valleybiz Internet Design
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"fool" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:eec8i6$9f3$[email protected]..
> Thanks - I inserted the media player which came with
Dreamweaver 8 and
> the
> following code was generated:
>
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=8,0,0,0" width="130" height="98"
id="FLVPlayer">
> <param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf"
/>
> <param name="salign" value="lt" />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <param name="scale" value="noscale" />
> <param name="FlashVars"
>
value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Corona_Skin_1&streamName=videos/naomi3&au
> toPlay=false&autoRewind=false" />
> <embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf"
>
flashvars="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Corona_Skin_1&streamName=videos/naomi
> 3&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false"
quality="high" scale="noscale"
> width="130"
> height="98" name="FLVPlayer" salign="LT"
> type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/>
> </object>
>
> I attempted to replace 'videos/naomi3' (the file is at
video/naomi.flv)
> with
> <?php echo $row_d['video']; ?>(this is the field
of the sql table in which
> the
> location to the flv file is located, but nothing
happened (no video
> appeared).
>
> The mysql table is set up properly as I can view image
files which are
> linked
> to by paths in the MySQL table so the problem can't be
that.
>
> Thanks
>

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