How To: Test that HDX MediaStream for Flash is working on your Client
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Transcript : Hello, and welcome to the next of our How To sessions. In this particular session we’re going to take a look at HDX MediaStream for Flash and how to make sure that it’s actually available, up and running, and installed correctly in your environment. So once you’ve put all of the installation components together and everything seems to be up and running, how can you tell if the flash is actually rendered on your client, or if it’s actually been rendered on the server-side? So first of all, we’re going to log into Web Interface from our client system. And I think I should have the Web Interface page already preloaded, and I do. Okay. So let’s log in there. I’m just going to log in as administrator. I’ll put in the password. Okay. So we’ve logged in successfully into Web Interface. So if we click on the published IE browser here, it should then start up a web page for us. And it has. Excellent. So, what we’re going to do now, is we’re going to navigate to a web site which is kind of heavily flash based, just to demonstrate HDX MediaStream running in the background. So we’re going to go to startrekmovie.com. Let’s try that. Okay. So straightaway, before we log into this page, we’re getting a couple of options. So, the options are Enable HDX MediaStream for Flash, which is obviously the object of what we’re trying to do here at the moment, Disable HDX MediaStream for Flash, if you didn’t want it for some reason, or Don’t ask me again. So the Don’t ask me again tab is just so that every time you log on to a web page, if you don’t want to see this pop-up stream coming up, you can just, you know, put the tick in the box there, and it won’t come up ever again. Okay? So we’re going to Enable HDX MediaStream for Flash, and we’re going to click on Don’t ask me again, because we’re pretty sure that it’s up and running. But there’s another way to check also. So let’s click OK and see if our web page is going to display properly. And it has. Excellent. Okay. So there’s the Star Trek movie coming up in the background. So, let’s just minimize that page for one second. Minimize that page also. There’s a second way to check whether HDX MediaStream for Flash is running in the background. So let’s actually go into Task Manager and just check what processes are running in the background. So, there we go. Top process. PseudoContainer.exe. So this particular process is running in the background every time you open up a flash based page when you’ve got HDX MediaStream for Flash enabled. So if I had three web pages opened, I would expect to see three PsuedoContainer.exe processes running in the background. If I had four or five, you’d have four or five. Okay. So if you kill that process, basically you’re just going to drop away from that web page. So if I go on End Process, then, okay, we’re going to have adverse effects. And let’s go back into the Star Trek movie page, and let’s just see what we’ve got. And there you go. It’s taking another couple of seconds to load the site. And actually what it’s doing there, it’s going to go ahead and try to load it from the server-side. Okay. So it’s not running from the client anymore. So let’s go back in and see if that PseudoContainer is back up and running again. It’s not. Okay. So basically what we did is, we killed the PseudoContainer.exe, and what the web page is forced to do is go back and run on the actual server-side. Okay? So that’s PseudoContainer.exe. Okay, let’s go back and let’s try a different site. Let’s close this one down. Back into Web Interface. I’ll open up another page. We’re just going to double check and make sure that does open up another PseudoContainer.exe. In fact, let’s open up a second web page, as well. So we’re going to try a different site this time. Let’s try Flash Earth. Okay. So we’ve already got that one pretty populated, which is perfect. Again, this should give us a PseudoContainer.exe. And one that is quite common, as well, to everybody, or should be. So let’s go into Citrix, which does actually have some flash content on it. So we’ve got two published web pages. And let’s go back in and see if we’ve got two PseudoContainer.exe's up and running. It wasn’t supposed to happen like that, so let’s go back and try that again. Okay. So Task Manager. And there we go. Okay. So we’ve got one set of Container.exe at the top, and we’ve got a second one down here running in the background. So you can see as well, depending on the amount of flash content there is on the web site, it’s using up slightly more memory on one than it is on the second one.
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