We're setting up a 2012 R2 RDS, and sending the RemoteApps into Windows 7, both Enterprise and ThinPC. Video playing is a problem - both youtube, and playing video files.
WMP will play fine in a full RDP session, but it becomes very glitchy when piped through a Remote App into Win 7 Thin PC or Enterprise. Youtube or Vimeo are very glitchy both in full RDP session and in IE Remote App.
What options have I got to get this working?
Both the Win 7 Thin PC and the Win 7 Ent clients are running the latest version of the RDP client (6.3.9600), supporting protocol 8.1.
The 2012 R2 hosts are fully up to date. In IE, the Adobe reports the Flash version as 12.0.0.77, same in Chrome. No surprise there, just one thing I was checking in the context of youtube being so glitchy and jumpy.
This termsvc team blog post talks about seamless multimedia experience on Win 8 & 2012 - but I don't think that it applies in our case since we are using Win 7 clients.
I'm new to terminal services, but from reading up about RemoteFX, it seems like there was a period during which RemoteFX had to be enabled by Group Policy, but that seems to no longer apply to my situation (where the clients support RDP protocol 8.1). Is that correct, or are there some policies I should be enabling on my 2012 R2 hosts to enable the best multimedia experience for clients using RDP protocol 8.1 in Win 7?