Client sound card detection

[AlexLaysha]

Hi!
If there is a way to detect from application that runs on Citrix if the client machine has a sound card?
Best regards...

 

[DevilDog]

I am not aware of any way for the application to detect the clients Sound Card; whether it exists or what type it is. My question to you would be ; Why sound? I would disable sound unless it is part of a CBT (computer based trng) application. Here is a quote from Citrix; "Client Audio Mapping can cause excessive load on the MetaFrame server and network. The higher the audio quality, the more bandwidth is required to transfer the audio data. Higher quality audio also uses more server CPU to process."

Check out the following doc on Citrix web site... "Sound Support Within an ICA Session". Document ID: CTX515028...

http://hqextsrvsft01.citrix.com/cgi...=1,ST=99,N=0006,K=25927,SXI=18,Case=obj(2668)

-- Devil Dog --

 

[CitrixEngineer]

The client should automatically pass on this information when it logs in - it is part of the ICA data stream.

Applications should not care whether there is a sound card or not - they simply pass the audio data to the NT subsystem, which then pipes the data down to the client, if audio is enabled in the client.

The client itself passes this stream to the host O/S for processing; ie if the sound card is correctly configured on the client, it should work.

Hope this helps

CE