Nowadays, everything is streamed, both music and audio. If you are at home, then you play probably, and other person via a laptop or computer, where it is often difficult to do everything again and again on a usb stick or external hard drive to convert. Then use a program like Universal Media Server called. With Universal Media Server, you create a central server, which allows you to transfer files via your home network playing on all connected devices. In addition, many devices are supported, such as a Smart TV, smartphones, tablets, Blu-ray players, Xbox, Playstation 3 and more.
Universal Media Server is free to use and the software is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Universal Media Server is a great program to transfer files to stream to your home network, what is done on the basis of the DLNA protocol, which stands for Digital Living Network Alliance, but it does need Java. After you have installed the software, proceed a few settings, but the configuration is not particularly complex. All settings are always on a later date to change. You create a private server that all connected devices support it, and the communication between your computer and the device on which you are going to stream. Devices that are connected to your network are automatically recognized, and this is so easy and if that is not the case, then a device manually to add it. If you want to start to stream then the connection is immediately initiated.
Then you specify which folders to the program to be linked and you can share these folders with Universal Media Server. All these folders can be found under one tab, and from there, they are simple to manage. You search your linked folders very easily, and if you click on a le and this will be played, it is immediately streamed to your chosen device. Buffering need hardly and the stream itself is fast and there is no real loss of quality. Another advantage is that Universal Media Server is a lot of transcoders supports so many file formats without any problems to play. The settings are off, or manually have to change.
In addition to the previously mentioned functions, it is possible to from the program information about, for example, a movie, directly download from internet, and there is still the option to create new plugins to add.
The program will start at the same time with your computer and runs in the background in the system tray. With Universal Media Server makes your computer a kind of mediahub. The same is yet to be done with a NAS. The application defaults to English, but the language is simple to convert to English.
Universal Media Server has the following characteristics:
Universal Media Server screenshots
You can free download Universal Media Server and safe install the latest trial or new full version for Windows 10 (x32, 64 bit, 86) from the official site.
Devices: Desktop PC, Laptop (ASUS, HP, DELL, Acer, Lenovo, MSI), Ultrabook
OS: Professional, Enterprise, Education, Home Edition, versions: 1507, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809