Game changer? Multimedia redirection (MMR) for Azure Virtual Desktop

Multimedia redirection (MMR) provides you with smooth video playback while viewing videos in your Azure Virtual Desktop browser. About for our customers better known as Remote Desktop or Windows 365. Multimedia redirection removes media content from the browser to the local computer for faster processing and rendering. Both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome support the multimedia redirection feature. However, the public preview version of multimedia redirection for Azure Virtual Desktop has limited playback on sites in the Known Sites list. If you want to test sites in the list in your organization's implementation, you should enable an extension.

Specifically, this means that teams can then be used properly in a Microsoft Remote Desktop environment.

The following websites work with MMR

  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Fox Sports
  • IMDB
  • Microsoft Learn
  • LinkedIn Learning
  • Fox Weather
  • Yammer
  • The Guardian
  • Image quality
  • Udemy
  • BBC
  • Pluralsight
  • Sites with embedded YouTube videos, such as Medium, Udacity, Los Angeles Times, and so on.
  • Teams live events (on the Internet)
    • Currently, Teams live events are not media-optimized for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365. MMR is a short-term temporary fix for smoother Teams playback of live events in Azure Virtual Desktop.
    • MMR supports Enterprise Content Delivery Network (ECDN) for Teams live events.

Multimedia redirection for Azure Virtual Desktop is currently in preview. Learn more at the: Microsoft Website

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