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RAVE (Remote Audio and Video Extensions) is the technology behind SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration. RAVE supports high quality playback of media streams that can be decoded by a media player that uses DirectShow or DirectX Media Objects (DMO). To determine whether SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration is functioning or not and to investigate issues in the same, administrators can use the Citrix-Multimedia-Rave/Admin logs that Windows provides.

This test provides administrators with insights into these logs. It scans the Citrix-Multimedia-Rave/Admin logs for specific patterns of event IDs/event sources/event descriptions. If entries matching these patterns are found in the logs captured recently, this test reports the number and nature of such messages.

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Error_count	This refers to the number of error events that were generated.	Number	A very low value (zero) indicates that SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration is functioning properly. An increasing trend or high value indicates the existence of problems. Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure for more details.
Information_count	This refers to the number of information events generated when the test was last executed.	Number	A change in the value of this measure may indicate infrequent but successful SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration operations. Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure for more details.
Warning_count	This refers to the number of warnings that were generated when the test was last executed.	Number	A high value of this measure indicates SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration problems that may not have an immediate impact, but may cause future problems. Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure for more details.
Critical_count	Indicates the number of critical events that were generated when the test was last executed.	Number	A critical event is one that an SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration cannot automatically recover from. This measure is applicable only for Windows 2008/Windows Vista/Windows 7 systems. An increasing trend or high value indicates the existence of fatal/irrepairable problems in the RAVE techology. The detailed diagnosis of this measure describes all the critical events related to RAVE that were generated during the last measurement period.
Verbose_count	Indicates the number of verbose events that were generated when the test was last executed.	Number	Verbose logging provides more details in the log entry, which will enable you to troubleshoot issues better. This measure is applicable only for Windows 2008/Windows Vista/Windows 7 systems. The detailed diagnosis of this measure describes all the verbose events that were generated during the last measurement period.