Share Windows 7 Digital Media on home network
Share Windows 7 Digital Media on home network
There are so many tips about stream and share digital media. Have you ever thought of setting up Windows Media Player in Windows 7 to share and stream videos, music, and other digital media to Windows 7 computers?
Setup Streaming
Type media streaming into the search box in the Start menu and select Media streaming options.
You can choose some custom settings if you want. For instance, maybe you want certain computers to only have access to music or certain files with a particular rating. For this demonstration we are opening everything up, but if you want to control what other users access, keep these settings in mind.
Select your media streaming options. Make sure all the computers on your network you want to have access are allowed and choose a name for the media library. If both computers are part of a Homegroup, everything is shared by default anyway, but you might want to block certain computers from the streaming options. Or you might want to double check .
Now open up Windows Media Player and in Library view click on Stream and check Automatically allow devices to play my media.
To be able to play content on one machine over to another we need to enable Allow remote control of my Player. This makes it so your computer is a remote control of sorts.
Then click Allow remote control on this network when the dialog box comes up.
Because we are making everything wide open to all computers, we need to enable the above settings on both computers. If you have multiple computers on your network you can set them all up to share their libraries too. Now when you go into Windows Media Player under the Library view you'll see Other Libraries and will see the other computers on your network.
Stream To a Machine
Now comes the cool partplaying video or music from the library of one machine to another machine. Make sure the machine you want to play the media to has WMP up and running. Right-click a media file and select Play to from the context menu and select the machine to play it to. In this example we only have one other machine to choose from, and playing an X-files episode from the library in WMP.
Then you'll see the Play To controller with the media listed. From here you can control the playback and volume.
Then the video starts playing through WMP on the other machine.
You aren't just limited to playing digital media from WMP either. Here we're in a video directory where we have season 2 of Star Trek DS9. Select the episodes to play, right-click and Play To
Playing Pictures to another machine.
music files too
You can simply drag and drop other files that you want to add into it..
Again from the Play To control you can switch the order of the files and skip to others.
Conclusion
As long as the network is connected, you can share any of your files on your home network in windows 7, looking forward to more Windows Media Player functions.
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