Chapter    5

Streaming Media Around the Home

With Windows 10 you can stream music and videos from media servers on your network using a standard called Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). DLNA is a certified standard for media servers, media players, and applications to work together. With DLNA you have a media server and something called a media renderer. The server could be a PC running Windows Media Player, a network-attached storage (NAS) box in your home, or media server software installed on a PC.

In the previous chapter, you learned how you can set up Windows Media Player to work as a media server, and in this chapter you will look at how you can stream from Windows Media Player and other media servers on your home network.

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