Administrator Guide

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Enable HDX Adaptive Display V2
About this task
This section describes how to enable HDX Adaptive Display V2 using Citrix Studio.
Steps
1. Go to Citrix Studio > Use video codec for compression policy.
2. Select the For actively changing regions option.
3. On the ThinOS client, launch an ICA desktop.
4. Open the web browser and play your preferred video.
HDX adaptive display V2 is used for video decoding on the ThinOS client. Thinwire uses JPEG (lossy) for complex or
photographic imagery and RLE (lossless) for text imagery. The rest of the screen is decomposed by Thinwire.
For more information about the Use video codec for compression policy, see the Graphics Policy Settings article at
docs.citrix.com.
Browser Content Redirection
Browser content redirection enables any web browser content, including HTML 5 videos, to be redirected to the ThinOS client
and not redirected on the VDA side.
Browser content redirection proxy setting If you use the browser content redirection proxy settings, enter a valid proxy
address and port number in the browser content redirection proxy configuration policy. Citrix Workspace app follows the server
fetch and client render mechanism to fetch URL from VDA and redirect browser content from the client.
NOTE:
In ThinOS 9.0, browser content redirection uses a WebkitGTK+ based overlay to render the content. Chromium
Embedded Framework (CEF) for browser content redirection will be enabled in later releases.
Enable Browser Content Redirection
Prerequisites
If you are using a Chrome browser, import the BCR extension into the browser.
If you are using a IE browser, ensure the Citrix HDXJsInjector add-on exists in the browser.
If you are using an RDS-hosted desktop, and if you are using a IE browser, install the BCR add-on manually from Citrix virtual
apps and desktops IOS installer.
About this task
This section describes how to enable Browser Content Redirection using Citrix Studio.
Steps
1. Go to Citrix Studio > Browser Content Redirection policy.
2. Select the Allowed option.
This enables the Browser Content Redirection policy.
3. In the Browser Content Redirection Access Control List (ACL) policy settings, add URLs that can use the browser
content redirection.
NOTE: Ensure that the URL is not listed in the Browser Content Redirection Blacklist Configuration policy.
4. On the ThinOS client, launch an ICA desktop.
5. Open either IE or Chrome and enter the URL that you have added in the Access Control List (ACL).
The browser viewport is rendered on the ThinOS client side. Browser attributes such as Address Bar and Status Bar still run
on the VDA side.
For more information about Browser Content Redirection, see the Browser Content Redirection article at docs.citrix.com.
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