To support Windows Media Multimedia Redirection (MMR), your VMware Horizon deployment must meet certain software and hardware requirements.
- Remote desktop
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- This feature is supported on virtual desktops and RDS hosts for published desktops.
- The following guest operating systems are supported.
- 64-bit Windows 10. Windows Media Player is supported. The default player TV & Movies is not supported.
- Windows Server 2012 R2 configured as an RDS host
- 3D Rendering can be activated or deactivated on the desktop pool.
- Users must play videos on Windows Media Player 12 or later or in Internet Explorer 8 or later.
- Horizon Client software
- Horizon Client for Windows.
- Horizon Client computer or client access device
- The clients must run a 64-bit or 32-bit Windows 10 operating system.
- Supported media formats
- Media formats that Windows Media Player supports, for example: M4V; MOV; MP4; WMP; MPEG-4 Part 2; WMV 7, 8, and 9; WMA; AVI; ACE; MP3; WAV.
- Horizon policies
- In the console, set the Multimedia redirection (MMR) policy to Allow. The default value is Deny.
- Back-end firewall
- If your VMware Horizon deployment includes a back-end firewall, verify that the firewall allows traffic to port 9427 on your desktops.