I can right click a movie or whatever and select play to for my Xbox One. Not sure if my Samsung TV shows up but I don't have it plugged in, its essentially a dumb terminal for all the other devices.
On that note its the only way I can play movies from my local network on my Xbox One. There's no way to browse the local network with my XBox One. Its majorly crippled. Its easier to play stuff off the Internet than it is from my own network. I tend to use my Gigabyte media center for movies. Rather dissapointing when your newer console is less capable than your older one(s). Progress right? :( Miracast with my Dell Venue 8 is a fail but that's due to my TV not supporting it. Yay for standards... Bleeding edge technology.... On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:21 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > > Has anyone been using DLNA from Windows 8.1 successfully? > > > > I went into Control Panel, enabled the Media Streaming options for the > correct file types. > > > > It showed two Bravia TVs correctly and I enabled access for them. > > > > I checked that the WMPNetworkSvc service is running. There also seems to > be a firewall exception for it. > > > > Even though Win8.1 could see the TVs, neither of them seems to find the > Win8.1 machine when searching for servers. I presumed that would be a > firewall issue but identical problem when I disabled the firewall during > testing. > > > > Any clues? > > > > The other option would have been to use the PlayTo stuff in Windows 8.1 > but even the latest software update for recent Bravia’s doesn’t come up as > Windows Certified. I even tried the registry hack to enable non-certified > devices but that didn’t work either. It then shows the TVs but complains it > needs a WPS PIN. Of course when I looked that up, even though Sony’s ads > say they support Miracast, their support site explains that their version > of Miracast only works from two specific Sony client devices… <sigh> > > > > After spending a couple of hours trying to make this work, I have yet > another new found appreciation for Apple’s AirPlay, even with its warts. I > was running in 5 minutes with that… > > > > Regards, > > > > Greg > > > > Dr Greg Low > > > > 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913fax > > SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com > > >
