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Access videos on PC from BDP-S370

bagheris — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:53:49 GMT

Hi,

I've recently purchased a Sony BDP-S370 blu-ray player. I have some films and TV shows on my PC in shared folders and would like to play them using the blu-ray player, however I cant seem to find a way of accessing these shared folders from my blu-ray player.

Is there a way of doing so?

Thanks

Access videos on PC from BDP-S370

Catmambo — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:56:27 GMT

Download a bit of free software called Serviio which will enable this.

Thanks

Access videos on PC from BDP-S370

highlander317 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:56:21 GMT

Its a shame Sony dont mention you need a newish router to be able to use the dlna, mine is 5 years old and working great but wont allow the dlna to work due to firmware. My s370 is going back as that was the main reason i bought it for

Access videos on PC from BDP-S370

jongste15 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:25:59 GMT

I managed to access 2 laptops and 1 PC in my wireless network (BDP-S370 connected by USB-dongle UWA-BR100). I defined 3 folders (photo, music and video) that can contain Windows' Media Player media libraries. All files in these folders can be seen if one allows to share these folders.

Problem is that a movie should have AVI-format; WMV f.i. is not being seen. Maybe the SW suggested by another replier can overcome this problem by not having to apply Windows Media Player?

Access videos on PC from BDP-S370

jongste15 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:26:12 GMT

Just installed Serviio(.org) and assigned same folders to its media library. Now the BDP-S370 has access also to WMV-files. So instead of Windows Media Player, now Serviio is the server. Works much better. Hope this is helpful for you.