You can see televisions make use of this feature to access videos from your laptops and other devices supporting the standard. UPnP and DLNA allow you to stream content over your local network. The option is available in the View > Playlist section of the media player. Take note that the setup only serves as a reference guide and you may need to modify slightly (ex: IP address and etc) to suit your own environment.VLC can easily access media from UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) as well as DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance). It will start to play the media as playing at media server as setup above. Click OK button to complete media player setup. Check “HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS”, then enter URL as :8080. Install VLC media player in another Windows PCĤ.

Then you need to setup client PC so that it can receive the media streaming seamlessly.ġ. Click Finish button to complete the media server setup Check “MPEG TS”, then click Next button.ġ0. Check “HTTP” and enter the IP of the server PC (Exp: 192.168.1.192), then click Next button.ĩ.

For instances: UDP Unicast – Stream to single computer, UDP Multicast – Stream to Multiple computers or HTTP – Stream using HTTP protocol.Ĩ. When you choose ‘Stream to network’ option, there are multiple streaming methods that you can select. Click Browse button to choose a media file to play, then click OK button. Click Choose button, a new Open window will be pop up.Ħ.

Choose “Stream to network” then click Next button.ĥ. Go to File -> Wizard to open Streaming/Transcoding Wizard.Ĥ. Once completed the installation, launch VLC media player.ģ. Install VLC media player in Windows PC.Ģ. We just talked about how to enable VLC player in full screen mode so that you can view HD media contents in PC monitor by default, now lets take a look on how you can setup a simple media server PC using VLC player to stream your media files to client PCs through wireless network in digital home.įirst you need to setup a centralized PC that stores all multimedia files in it.ġ.

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