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Sun Ray Software 4 Update 3 0 - With Video Support
A Sun blogger announced that Sun Ray Software 4 Update 3 Beta is coming soon…
Some notes from the beta FAQ:
Sun Ray Software 4 Update 3 includes
- Sun Ray Server Software (SRSS) 4.1 and
- Sun Ray Connector for Windows Operating Systems (SRWC) 2.1
for
- Solaris 10 5/08 on SPARC with and without Trusted Extensions
- Solaris 10 5/08 on X86 with and without Trusted Extensions
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 1
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 Service Pack 1
Multimedia enhancements:
- using Sun Ray Connector for Windows and Windows Media Player
- H.264 (MPEG-4) and VC-1 (Windows Media Video 9) playback capabilities on Sun Ray 2 family of clients by extending Sun Ray architecture to accept these streams and transmit them directly to Sun Ray clients for decoding.
- Improved playback of other video formats such as avi, divx, MPEG-2, etc. by leaveraging standard XVideo interface on Sun Ray 1 and Sun Ray 2 family of clients where YUV streams are sent directly to the Sun Ray client.
- using Non-Windows environment( XVideo)
- Accelerated YUV playback with applications such as RealPlayer by leaveraging standard XVideo for Sun Ray 1 and Sun Ray 2 family of clients where YUV streams are sent directly to the Sun Ray client.
