Citrix Technologies: Webcams with HDX USB vs HDX Realtime Webcam

Using webcams with HDX USB vs HDX Realtime Webcam The great thing about HDX USB plug-n-play is that you dont have to worry about installing drivers on your thin client, the USB stack is "virtualized" such that anything you plug into the local client gets sent to the remote VM and the remote desktop acts as if you plugged it natively. This means that the Windows desktop will take care of all the interaction with the hardware and run through the "plug-n-play" logic to find the right drivers. Here you will find that just about any webcam should work as […]

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Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop: Redirect Client device WebCam to RDP or ICA sessions

At XenApp Level: WebCam for Remote Desktops The Fabulatech’s “WebCam for Remote Desktops” integrates with RDP and ICA protocols by installing its own WebCam drivers called “FabulaTech WebCam”.  The another important fact to consider is this driver server side driver will in-turn attempts to communicate to user device via drivers installed on user device. If there are multiple webcam driver software installed on the client, this “FabulaTech WebCam” driver by default uses “Auto Select” option to detect appropriate driver that is most suitable for the choosen RDP/ICA session.  However, it also gives you an option to force use of particular […]

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Citrix XenApp: both (built-in and USB attached) Webcam based applications like Adobe Presenter and Skype fail to work with “Citrix HDX Web Camera” whereas Flash redirected access works from Internet Explorer

I’ve been researching on getting Webcam based applications setup over XenApp.  I nail downed it to a level that webcam based applications like Adobe Presenter and Skype are failing to make use of WebCams via “Citrix HDX Web Camera” driver. Whereas using the same driver webcam access in Internet Explorer is working just fine.  The part of the reason for this applications not able to work with Citrix drivers is that they are very primary designed for desktop systems are thus may be failing to get into the HDX webcam channel data via Citrix.   Launching Adobe Presenter in ICA […]

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