By default, MMR is disabled, however the Tenant Administrator can enable this using the global policy in Horizon 7, allowing for enhanced multimedia playback on the local client device rather than host. This can reduce CPU usage on the host server during multimedia playback.

MMR will adapt to network conditions on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 or later (Windows Server 2016 is tech-preview at the time of writing this document). If the network latency between Horizon Client and the remote desktop is less than 30 milliseconds, the video is redirected with MMR. If the network latency is 30 milliseconds or higher, the video is not redirected, instead it is rendered on the ESXi host.