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Streaming media using DLNA on Windows 8.1 tablet
guygamps
28-04-2015
Hello, for a long time I have enjoyed using DLNA to stream content from various media servers in my home, to various rendering devices around the house. Typically I would use (for example) an App called MediaHouse running on my Samsung Galaxy Note tablet, to browse music or video saved on a network drive (a QNAP NAS running Twonky Media Server), and I would also be able to select which device would display the video or output the music, such as my Pioneer AV receiver, my internet radio in the kitchen or my Samsung TV in the games room, each supports DLNA.

MediaHouse is just one of many apps I have used on Android for same purpose.

Now I have changed my tablet to a Acer Switch 10, it runs Windows 8.1. I can access the media because Twonky is recognised as a device by Windows, but I can't see anyway to use the tablet to "direct" the playback to another rendering device in the house (not the tablet itself). None of the Apps I have run over the years on Android seem to be available in the Windows app store.

Any ideas?


Thanks
oilman
29-04-2015
You need to set up windows media player as a dlna server

http://www.topnettricks.com/windows-...-media-server/


There are other allegedly better media servers as well - search web.
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