AllShare

Learn to use the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) service that enables you to share media files between DLNA-enabled devices in your home over a WLAN.

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››Customise DLNA settings for sharing media files

To allow other DLNA-enabled devices to access media files on your device, you must activate media sharing.

Some files may not play on the DLNA-enabled devices depending on the devices.

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In Menu mode, select AllShare.

2

Press [ ] → Settings.

 

3

 

Adjust the following settings to customise the DLNA feature:

 

 

Option

 

Function

 

 

Media server name

 

Enter a name for your device as a media server.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Share media

 

Turn on video sharing, image sharing, or music

 

 

 

sharing with other DLNA-enabled devices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Access point

 

Select a connection profile to use for DLNA

 

 

network

 

connections.

Option

Function

Upload from other

Set whether or not to accept uploads from

devices

other devices.

Default memory

Select a memory location for saving

downloaded media files.

 

››Play files on another DLNA-enabled device

1

In Menu mode, select Allshare.

2

Your device automatically searches for DLNA-enabled devices.

Select a device as the media server—the one that contains media

3

files—under Server.

Select a player—the one that will play the media file—under Display

4

device.

Select Next.

5

Select a media category → a file.

6

Control playback using icons of your device.

Playback may be buffered depending on the network connection and the connected server.

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