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Hello,

First of all sorry if I have posted this in the wrong section, but I could not find the appropriate place. I am trying to figure out how I can allow my TV to play videos that are on my PC? I have a Vizio E420d-A0 TV I would like to stream too. It says it supports DLNA and all kinds of other stuff for this purpose. It does not include any instructions for setting any of this up though. I was doing some research online and say there is a way to stream video from VLC player to a TV or another device like a XBox 360 or a Android phone. Could someone give me instructions on how I would go about setting up VLC Player to stream to my TV? Also, is there a way to have the TV play movies from my PC without actually having the movie play on my PC at the same time?

Thanks,
Rocky

With DLNA the TV will play only the video files it supports. The TV pulls the file and plays it, you are not streaming to the TV. Some of the newer TVs will see shared network drives just as they see USB drives and you can access all of your files. If your OS/cloud server does not support DLNA you can get DLNA freeware that transcodes on the fly. I have a Sharp Quattron and it sees my cloud server, all my computers, Xbox, printer media slots, and DLNA devices. As long as I have the correct file format it will play video, jpg, bitmap and music.

You may have to register your componets with each other to allow access.

I only live stream with VLC so if there is a DLNA function I am not aware of it.

Now my TV has a web browser so it would be interesting to see if I can see a live stream from VLC. Chances are it will not install VLC for playback but it is worth a shot.

With DLNA the TV will play only the video files it supports. The TV pulls the file and plays it, you are not streaming to the TV.

I only live stream with VLC so if there is a DLNA function I am not aware of it.

yes, it would be interesting if VLC could act as that kind of server on any input under Media-Stream