Windows 10: Windows 10 shared library contents cannot be accessed on TV if it's on a different drive...

Hi,

I'm trying to access my movies from my PC and watch them on my TV through DLNA.

It's not an Android TV, it has Philips's own OS on it, thus I cannot install something like Plex on it.

I tried streaming through Wifi but it was pretty choppy, and bad quality.

I have tried a lot of things without spending money and one of which is to share something called a library in Windows 10.

There is a feature for this in the sharing settings in Windows. It will share all of the folders like the Pictures, Videos, Music folders. My TV can see these folders and it can see and play the contents if I copy a movie to it for example.

The problem is that this Videos folder or this Library is on a 128 GB SSD. I moved the location of this Videos folder to where my movies are onto an HDD by selecting a "relocate" option in the settings of this folder. When I try to access the movies from the TV it says there is no shared content available.

So I'm guessing because sharing doesn't really work with this TV, it cannot see anything that is not on the same drive as the OS is on.

my tv: https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/43PUS6504_12/6500-series-4k-uhd-led-smart-tv

If there is an option to access my movies without buying a streaming device, please let me know!

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Unable to share media to TV after clean Windows 10 install


I recently had to do a clean install of Windows 10 Home x64 (1511 Build 10586.318). Before the clean install I could share and view on my Panasonic TV all the photos / videos stored on my PC. Since the clean install, while all the media locations on my PC are listed in the Windows Media Player Libraries, including my OneDrive, only the OneDrive locations are visible on the TV (Windows appears to automatically add the OneDrive to the list, as if you remove it from the list of libraries it is added again automatically!). The TV is listed in the devices to which the media can be streamed on the Local network.

I also have a Western Digital NAS drive and can stream all media to the TV from this without any problem. Can anybody suggest why the media located in the default Windows Pictures / Video locations cannot be viewed on the TV, while the OneDrive locations are and how I can solve this issue?

 

How to Share Media Libraries in Windows 10?

Thanks for the attempted help.

Following above only removed the laptop from the list of "Media Devices" when I select the "Network" entry in File Explorer on the workstation.

The laptop has always been visible from the "Network" selection in Explorer as a "Computer" that requires UID /PW to access. and the Pauli O article (though I've followed it many times) does not do anything for allowing media players like Blu-ray units and
smart TVs to access the media libraries on the laptop. I could see them from said devices, but if I try to play an audio track for example, the player reports "You do not have permissions..." whereas that was not the case with the workstation libraries with
all the same settings (and same Windows Features active, sharing and security settings for media libraries / folders.)

But now, after running above steps the media players can't even see the laptop - it is no longer appearing on the network as a "Media Device" so I am now one step worse off than before. The only difference in the "Music" folder that is shared from the workstation
and is accessible by external media devices is that in the files Properties-Sharing tab, "Share" button "Network Access" panel lists a user, "ASP.NET Machine Account" with Read permissions and <MyUID> with "Owner" permission level. On the offending laptop
only <LaptopUserID> with "Owner" permission level appears. Security tab for both are identical except on the workstation "ASP.Net Machine Account" is also listed with "Read and Execute", "List Folder Contents" and "Read" checked in the "Allow" column.

So something in the list of steps about has now disabled the laptop from being found on the network as a "Media Device". NOTE: all the services and features mentioned above were already active EXCEPT SMB 1.0 / CIFS Server which is NOT active (checked) on
the workstation which can function as a "Media Device" on the network.

Another difference in the laptop v. the workstation is that the laptop has no registry entries for DLNA which I thought was part of Media Player and should be present for these external devices to access the laptop as a Media Device.