Magic thanks David. That looks like the answer. I was trying to avoid having yet another device there but they look so neat. I’ve ordered a couple of them.
Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: <http://www.sqldownunder.com/> www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2014 6:47 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com <mailto:step...@perthprojects.com> > wrote: 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.... Since finding DIaL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIscovery_And_Launch), DLNA is dead to me. I got a mate in the US to send over a bunch of ChromeCasts and it is the way forward. $35 per first screen and you use 'whatever' phone/tablet/app to tell it to download content. Sure as hell beats the brain dead UX on my Bravia for finding media as the device you send commands from is anything and disconnected from the source and destination of the streaming. It is so frickin simple and widely supported from second screen apps on android/ios. Latest release also supports Plex for local media. YMMV. David.
