But, move over H.264… HEVC (H.265) promises up to “50%” reduction of bandwidth consumption with amazing display quality. H.264, or Advanced Video Coding (AVC), currently remains the most widely used video codec today, being supported by the majority of client hardware including select Thin & Zero Client devices. Citrix H.264 Supportīy definition, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265, is a video compression standard created to drastically improve coding efficiency. This new H.265 video codec can both accelerate and enhance the experience of remote graphics and videos in VDI environments. When leveraged with NVIDIA GPUs, graphics performance not only improves greatly, bandwidth consumption also reduces by 50%.
This news, and the fact that Citrix integrated HDX 3D Pro into their VDA installer, has never made Citrix VDA look better! With so much bandwidth and encoding overhead being demanded these days, Citrix found a way to outdo its H.264 codec support by adding H.265 for XenApp and XenDesktop. To clarify, just this month… Citrix announced the improvement of its codec capabilities by incorporating Citrix H.265 support into their XenApp and XenDesktop Platinum editions. We have three words for you, “improved graphics experience.” With the announcement of Citrix H.265 support, no three words could be truer.
Citrix H.265 Support Amplifies Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Display GraphicsĬitrix H.265 Support makes Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) Even Better