We are happy to announce new upgrades to Multimedia Redirection (MMR) on Azure Virtual Desktop are now in public preview. Now you can enjoy a smoother video playback experience while watching videos in your Azure Virtual Desktop remote app browser and session desktop. These updates allow MMR to work on 30 websites, such as Facebook, IMBD, YouTube, Fox Sports, Vimeo, Coursera, Yahoo, Reddit and more. Both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome support the new multimedia redirection video upgrades. In addition to working on more websites, users have access to more media controls, refreshed playback status icon indicators, and new diagnosability tools available in the MMR browser extension.
Getting started
To enjoy the Multimedia Redirection upgrades, the latest MSI installer is required. Please refer to Multimedia Redirection for Azure Virtual Desktop on how to set up Multimedia Redirection.
For known good websites that work with MMR, please check the list here.
Multimedia Redirection upgrades are also available on Windows 365. For more information go to https://aka.ms/W365MMRBlog.
Sept. 27, 2022 - This post was edited after publication to include new features and additional websites.